on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:59:47AM +0100, Alexis wrote:
Excuse me? I've heard several people recommend against trying to install Debian without an expert on hand, whereas the ambition at least of Mandrake et al is to allow a novice to click 'next' the whole time and get something working at the end.
Note the "expert" really needs to be a debian expert not a general linux one. Maybe I (and I'm definitely not claiming to be a linux expert, heh) missed something, but when I was recently helping someone with a debian install, finding any information seemed a bit of a futile task.
The search functionality on debian.org seems a little odd, and neither of us were able to find a simple how-to on moving from say, stable to testing or unstable. Although this could be my inability to search/grok manpages properly, but this tends to not fail with pretty much every other distribution/operating system I've come across.