Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Christian Perrier
> > is Martin Schulze; [...] > > Yes, but he prefers to be called Joey. But has "Martin" in his From line, which is pretty confusing for people who are not hardcore Debianers since the origins of computing...:-) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:32:00PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-04-21 11:54:47, schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:14:10AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > > > Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > > > How do I bind a computer to an NIS server? > > > > Use a rope? > > > >

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-22 01:27:18, schrieb Henning Makholm: > Scripsit Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > And for those who still are complaining about the installer not being > > graphical: please, guys, there's more than your x86 machines. Keep that > > in mind. And where is the difference between a

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-21 11:54:47, schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:14:10AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > > Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > > How do I bind a computer to an NIS server? > > > Use a rope? > > > -- Seen on #Debian > > > > That was a good one! Was it Joey H. or Joey S.? A

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-21 07:07:56, schrieb Andrew Donnellan: > Babelfish says the other email was complaining that the resolution > should be higher and criticising the installer for being 90s-era. If > he wanted help he could have actually asked...at least some people > like Barry appreciate how easy it act

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Henning Makholm wrote: > I don't care much for mouse clicks, but "80x25 characters and a 8-bit > font" The debian installer uses a unicode font on systems where the kernel supports it (which for i386 systems, is most of them). -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 22 April 2006 01:27, Henning Makholm wrote: > I don't care much for mouse clicks, but "80x25 characters and a 8-bit > font" is a very low common denominator for the amount of text one can > show on the screen when selecting packages or answering complex > debconf questions. The 8-bit-ne

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And for those who still are complaining about the installer not being > graphical: please, guys, there's more than your x86 machines. Keep that > in mind. And where is the difference between a mouse click and a return > key (yes, it's - mostly - that

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-21 Thread Marc Singer
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:14:10AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > And for those who still are complaining about the installer not being > graphical: please, guys, there's more than your x86 machines. Keep that > in mind. And where is the difference between a mouse click and a return > key (yes, it

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:14:10AM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > How do I bind a computer to an NIS server? > > Use a rope? > > -- Seen on #Debian > > That was a good one! Was it Joey H. or Joey S.? Anyway: thanks for > sharing this with us :-) is Joey Schulz

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:37, you wrote: >> The stable version installed so easily and well I just >> couldn't believe it. It is now far easier to install Debian than >> Windows XP - yes - really. And I'm not a regular Linux user. Agreed. Tho I had to use the Etch

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/21/06, Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:37, you wrote: > > The stable version installed so easily and well I just > > couldn't believe it. It is now far easier to install Debian than > > Windows XP - yes - really. And I'm not a regular Linux user.

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread David A.
I agree. I recently installed Unstable via minimal net-install-CD on a Dell lattitude laptop. I was impressed with how good it worked to resize the NTFS-partition during installation. Nice to se that GRUB took care of the multi-boot-stuff without any strange questions. Default workstation install w

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:37, you wrote: > The stable version installed so easily and well I just > couldn't believe it. It is now far easier to install Debian than > Windows XP - yes - really. And I'm not a regular Linux user. What praise. Thank you very much! I just had to laugh out loud

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 01:37, Barry Drake wrote: > It is now far easier to install Debian than Windows XP - yes - really. And > I'm not a regular Linux user. And to all those who disagreed with me on this point about two years ago: I told you so... -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Goo

Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-19 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there .. It's about five or six years since I made an installation of Debian. It was not easy and took simply ages. This Easter, I wanted to test BibleTime, and decided to make a fresh start. Congratulations on your install system. The stable version installed so easily and well