On Sunday 07 December 2003 02:46, king kong wrote: [ .. ] > Oh, and don't get me go into the installer. It just > plain > sucks (Yeah, shoot me, I said it!). For god sake, we > are almost passed half of the first decaded of the 21 > century, and we still can't have a good installer that > recognizes the hardware properly. For my server, I > didn't dare to buy any new hardware, only those that > are at least 2 years old, and it still can't get it. > E.g. > DLink DFE-530TX, PT-Link cards, and some old > ATI cards. I can pop Knoppix and Mepis in, and they > just works fine. Same for RH, Mandrake and Suse. > The package management is cool and fine, but if you > can't get pass the installation, you can't use it. Did you ever try the beta-1 of the new installer? Just curious ... It worked very well for me and detected all the right stuff. Apart from having to use fdisk I believe almost everybody will be able to install Linux with it. And regarding the fdisk thing. I am not sure, but I believe to remember that there might have been an option to let the installer do the partitioning.
[..] > Actually, we are evaluating > the > distros for a client with a 50-server installation in > a > data center. They gave the hardware specs, and I'm > really concerned about the debian installation > process. That's very interesting. Especially for installing 50 systems with a common set of software it is debian coming to my mind, not any other distribution. Cheers, Mariani -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
