Package: debian-installer Version: 20050403
I'm considering using Linux to perform our software development. Currently, we use Solaris 8 on Sun workstations because our customer does the same. We are going to purchase new workstations and may go with PC/Linux rather then Sun/Solaris. I tried Gentoo, but had trouble with some of their packages. I am trying Debian because of your reputation for stability and package management.
This morning I installed Sarge on both an Ultra-5 and a Dell Pentium III PC. I am very pleased that the install went so well. The package management system downloaded the 700+ packages of the desktop option and installed them without a problem. That's what we need so we can develop our software rather then fight with bugs and dependency problems.
I played around with Woody yesterday and the Sarge installation is a big improvement over Woody. By the way, I could not get the Sparc rescue.bin floppy to boot. Error was something about a bad magic number. I wrote the disk first using Sun Solaris and again with a Windows PC and got the same error both times. The i386 rescue.bin floppy worked just fine.
Attached are the install reports and logs in two files, one for the Sparc and one for the i386.
Mike Liford
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