Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-10 Thread dan
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 07:38:11AM +, Phillip Deackes generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > I cannot disagree more strongly! > > During install of Storm Linux you have the option to do a text isntall > or a graphical install. Even if you choose the graphic install you have > another option t

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've installed Sotrm for someone as a workstation and my first impression was that it is a good distribution, specially for beginners... Installation is easy and creating dual boot (something of what I think most beginners in Linux start with, linux and windows) was really a piece of cake. No need

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Was total nightmare to install for me, since it simply didn't let me > do > what I wanted it to. I wanted to have my swap second or first > partition, > nope, can't do that... etc. I think it's easy to install for someone > who > doesn't need much flexibility/doesn't h

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-09 Thread dan
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:39:41PM +, Phillip Deackes generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > As I said before, Storm in *much* better than Corel Linux from the > Debian point of view as it appears to have broken nothing. You end up > with a very easy-to-install Debian Slink system with a few Stor

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Storm also uses the .deb debian packages which you can install using > dpkg, > dselect or apt, so you can either download the package for that boot > loader or edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to install them (a lot > easier > then compiling). (By the way t

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
Storm also uses the .deb debian packages which you can install using dpkg, dselect or apt, so you can either download the package for that boot loader or edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to install them (a lot easier then compiling). (By the way the: ftp://ftp.stormix.com)... Ron On Wed, 8 Mar 200

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Parrish M Myers
--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know how these nifty things are accomplished? Are the > tools > available to Debian users as .deb's? Does anyone intend to pack > such thing, > e.g. the graphical bootloader with a Debian logo? > > I think this would be a nice option. Wha

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Phillip Deackes
"Christian Rishøj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently visited Storm Linux's (Debian in disguise) homepage and found some fancy (not nessecarily usable) features like graphical bootloader and (framebuffered?) svga console and boot sequence. See for example http://www.stormix.com/products/screens

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +0100, Christian Rishøj wrote: > > I recently visited Storm Linux's (Debian in disguise) homepage and found > some fancy (not nessecarily usable) features like graphical bootloader and > (framebuffered?) svga console and boot sequence. See for example > > http:/

Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-07 Thread Christian Rishøj
I recently visited Storm Linux's (Debian in disguise) homepage and found some fancy (not nessecarily usable) features like graphical bootloader and (framebuffered?) svga console and boot sequence. See for example http://www.stormix.com/products/screenshots/index_html?query_start=5 ...which has a