On 28.10.11 19:11, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Erik Christiansen (dvalin@internode.on.net):
Well, this one found that Debian wouldn't install on hardware he'd just paid good money for, nearly a decade ago.
This was often the case _if_ you were unaware of the many extremely good third-party installer images. At any given time, there are a huge number of these, and there were (e.g.) a number of live-CD Debian installers long before the Debian Live Project (live.debian.net) existed.
I was unaware then, and throughout the intervening decade, until I read your post today. One Live CD, and one Install CD, were all that I bumped into. (For some, the focus is on using, not futzing. [1] If the chicken wings aren't in the bain-marie, then they aren't sold.)
I even got so tired of hearing how _the_ Debian installer image was insufficient that I made a Web page to point people to (and of course, it is now a bit out of date):
I can see why it'd be a bit dated. It can't be easy to find the time to review the current status of them all, for an update. You've prompted me to visit debian.org, even though I won't migrate today. After even a ubuntu upgrade there's a week of bumping into missing packages, because one discipline I haven't developed is making a list of what I install. (A before, and after, "dpkg --get-selections" might be a way round that, perhaps.)
My own current favourite way to install Debian is Aptosid (formerly Sidux). Live CD with installer, comes out every quarter.
A quick glance at their site left me with the impression that it is KDE oriented. (kI kan't kstand kKDE, kespecially kthe kommand knames. :-) The Debian Live CD, with Gnome, ..., Xfce sampler is more appealing. I've never had an insoluble problem with Gnome, but the talk of Xfce on this list is almost enough to make me curious. I suppose the signing of the ISOs manages the risk of downloading from BitTorrent. Erik [1] I don't futz with linker scripts, Vim features, and shell scripts; the increase in functionality makes it productivity improvement. -- Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases (which) we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution, but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and the education of the billions who are it victims. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr.