Hi Folks
Does Debian come with a pretty graphical installer that automatically probes and configures most of the hardware ?? Or does Debian have to be installed the hard way....
Regards, Paul.
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:59:41PM +0100, Paul wrote:
Does Debian come with a pretty graphical installer that automatically probes and configures most of the hardware ?? Or does Debian have to be installed the hard way....
Currently it's an install the hard way job. There's work happening on debian-installer and pgi (the Progeny Graphical Installer), but neither is the default yet.
There are PGI Woody images at:
http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/pgi/
but I've no idea what they're like.
J.
Paul
Does Debian come with a pretty graphical installer that automatically probes and configures most of the hardware ?? Or does Debian have to be installed the hard way....
Storm Linux may help. AFAIK it was a debian-based distro and should at least get a system up and running even if not everything is working first time round e.g. sound card. If not still available I have a copy.
Syd
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 04:58 AM, Syd Hancock wrote:
Paul
Does Debian come with a pretty graphical installer that automatically probes and configures most of the hardware ?? Or does Debian have to be installed the hard way....
Storm Linux may help. AFAIK it was a debian-based distro and should at least get a system up and running even if not everything is working first time round e.g. sound card. If not still available I have a copy.
I think Storm Linux went belly-up, if I remember correctly. The newgroup has only a handful of postings this year: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.os....
and http://www.stormix.com/ is unavailable. The only reference I can find online is Storm Linux 2000, which is 2 years out of date.
--
Ashley T. Howes Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com
"When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:59:41 Paul wrote:
Hi Folks
Does Debian come with a pretty graphical installer that automatically probes and configures most of the hardware ?? Or does Debian have to be installed the hard way....
No, it doesn't, and it is probably this that gets Debian its repuation as not being for beginners.
A lot depends on what you know about your hardware. On my home PC it was very straighforward because I had built the PC myself and knew what hardware was in it. On one of the PCs at work I had to ask to find out what sound hardware had been integerated onto the motherboard so as to be able to load the correct kernel module for it.
With the move to XFree84 4.1 there is a new imporoved X setup program in Debian. It still runs in text mode but from memory it wasn't hard to use.
Steve.
-
Ashley -
Jonathan McDowell -
Paul -
Steve Fosdick -
Syd Hancock