On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:05:12PM -0700, Donovan Colbert wrote: > www.debian.org proved to be a frustrating series of fruitless efforts to try > and figure out how to best get the media to install. I tried a CD based > install, but being a w32 oriented guy, ran into a variety of issues with > creating a working bootable image. > > I have installed RedHat and Slackware in the past, before RedHat had fancy > GUI based installs, and was familiar with the basic concept of making floppy > root and rescue disks using rawrite. But I was struggling with the > documentation available here.
What exactly was the problem? Were you unable to find things like http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst or http://www.debian.org/CD/ or http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-windows or http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installguide/ Or did you find these, but were discontent with them? > I know the Debian development has a vested interest in selling CDs Hardly. Some CD vendors donate parts of their sales to us, but that wouldn't even begin to cover the costs of operating our servers. > I think it might be more encouraging to newbies to have documentation that > is clearer, or links to sites that maintain this type of documentation, to > get us started. I agree we have problems with this. We're working on improving the web site to be easier to navigate and to make it faster to find stuff. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]