[plug] debian convert

[Quintin Lette]

On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:36, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> Hello.
>
> My first impressions of installing Debian (3.0rsomething) is that it is
> pretty confusing! I consider myself an intermediate-advanced user and I
> had to read what it was saying a few times to get my head around it.

I just did my first Debian desktop install in a long while and by letting 
tasksel do the work (something I never do with my server installs) there 
where very few questions (am used to the long tedious instructions from 
installing servers though) but you still have to do quite a bit yourself, 
IIRC you can change the level of importance of the questions you would like 
to answer though to the extent of everything being default, I don't remember 
how though.

>
> Someone should really look at that - maybe have a "do everything for me"
> option and a "let me at it" option for installing.
>

If I'm not mistaken that might be part of the intention of the new 
debian-installer (I'm sure I will be corrected though) which is being 
developed, it looks as if it will even have a graphical front-end for once, 
and someone said easily scriptable (like RedHat's kickstart)

> Aside from that I think you evil so-and-sos have found another convert.
> ahhhh no more bluecurve!

I used RedHat 8 for a period of about 1 day before reinstalling something 
else, SuSE to be precise, because I hated bluecurve so much :)

>
> Patrick

Quintin