Re: Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-08 Thread Hamilcar Barca
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:20:37 +, Adam Funk wrote: > Do you not have to subscribe in order to post to the list? No. > I use the newsgroup version of the list and it bounced my posts until I > subscribed. Gmane requires authentication of the email address in the "From:" or "Reply-to:" header f

Re: Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-08 Thread Kent West
Adam Funk wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 17:10, Kent West wrote: By sending the above email? No. Instead, you want to go to http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe and select the "debian-user" list and then scroll to the bottom and enter your email. You'll then get an email, to which you mu

Re: Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-08 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 17:10, Kent West wrote: > By sending the above email? No. Instead, you want to go to > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe > and select the "debian-user" list and then scroll to the bottom and > enter your email. > > You'll then get an email, to which you must rep

Re: Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-08 Thread Kent West
caf wrote: I'm trying to get on the mailing list... Am I doing the right thing to get added? caf By sending the above email? No. Instead, you want to go to http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe and select the "debian-user" list and then scroll to the bottom and enter your email. You'

Re: Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-08 Thread caf
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Re: D-I Issue on partitioning. [Was: Re: Debian vs. other distros]

2004-06-02 Thread Joey Hess
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Thanx for the reply, but unfortunately... What you mention is exactly what > I did. This gave me a new screen which had only *one* option: whipe my > whole drive first before you partition manually. > > Sorry, I cannot describe the *exact* dialogs, I am doing this

Re: D-I Issue on partitioning. [Was: Re: Debian vs. other distros]

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: [issues about the new Debian Installer partitioning routine] When I downloaded/used the new Sarge installer about a week ago, I found that I hated partitioning routine, simply because it seemed to take so many keypresses and jumped from screen to screen. It worked

Re: D-I Issue on partitioning. [Was: Re: Debian vs. other distros]

2004-06-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Thanx for the reply, but unfortunately... What you mention is exactly what I did. This gave me a new screen which had only *one* option: whipe my whole drive first before you partition manually. Sorry, I cannot describe the *exact* dialogs, I am doing this from memory. But trust me, I was so amaze

Re: Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-02 Thread Joey Hess
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Downloaded the new Debian Installer, latest version (110 MB CD Image) and > booted it. It went like a CHARM. Only thing I had some difficulties with > was the partitioning of the disk. D-I guys, please have a look at the > dialogues here, because if you already hav

Re: Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi, > I have had issues installing Fedora Core 2, (and 1), but no matter what, > Debian installs like a charm...and quick to. Despite being > text-based...the installer is one of the best i've seen. Plus, I like the > fact that you can pretty much "apt-get" anything. I agreed to the critics until

Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-02 Thread scott
Hello, I'm fairly new to Debian, and have been using RedHat/Fedora for a while. I would just like to state that all the reading that i've been doing on which distro is better, and why...seem to be misleading. Alot of people say that Fedora is better when it comes to installs, and so is SuSE. Now,