Newbie installation: any autodetection of devices?

2001-11-28 Thread Johann Spies
I am working at the Information Technology department of our university. The mangement has invited me introduce them to Linux. They are Windows users and knows computers very well. So I decided to let them install Debian from our local ftp-server for a start. I am preparing for this, but find

Re: Newbie installation: any autodetection of devices?

2001-11-28 Thread David Wright
So I decided to let them install Debian from our local ftp-server for a start. I am preparing for this, but find it not so easy to do. I use and apprecite Debian daily, so I hate to say this, but it's true: if you want to impress them with an easy Linux installation, don't use Debian!

Re: Newbie installation: any autodetection of devices?

2001-11-28 Thread Brian Nelson
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I decided to let them install Debian from our local ftp-server for a start. I am preparing for this, but find it not so easy to do. I use and apprecite Debian daily, so I hate to say this, but it's true: if you want to impress them with an easy

Re: Newbie installation: any autodetection of devices?

2001-11-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, David Wright wrote: I use and apprecite Debian daily, so I hate to say this, but it's true: if you want to impress them with an easy Linux installation, don't use Debian! Grab a Red Hat or SUSE install disk and the process will look as easy as it does for Windows. To

Re: Newbie installation: any autodetection of devices?

2001-11-28 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:07:22PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: To get into X Window, RedHat would be better than Debian. Yup. Or, better yet, Mandrake! Then move them on to Debian after a couple of months, when they're a bit more world wise :). But for installing individual packages, I think .deb is