Re: entrance exam [was wt?(long and fustrated)]

2003-03-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:01:01PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > > The main reason I'm beating my head against this wall is because Debian > > *doesn't* do things like replace LILO with GRUB. Things take a while; > > possibly be

Re: entrance exam [was wt?(long and fustrated)]

2003-03-11 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 16:01, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I can't understand how people consider the install that difficult... You must be a 13 year old kid :-) -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: entrance exam [was wt?(long and fustrated)]

2003-03-11 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > The main reason I'm beating my head against this wall is because Debian > *doesn't* do things like replace LILO with GRUB. Things take a while; > possibly because there's nobody available to do them, but I'd like to > think it's more

Re: entrance exam [was wt?(long and fustrated)]

2003-03-11 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 12:39, Hugh Saunders wrote: > IMHO the installer is fine but i tend to just let it install the base > system then i do the rest -installing and configuring with apt and vim > :-) I'm sure (pretty sure) that would work fine - once you know what's going on. But to the Debian

entrance exam [was wt?(long and fustrated)]

2003-03-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:48:30AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > I've got to agree with David Krider's complaints about the Debian > install process. This isn't rocket science; it's just a hardware prober. > If the 'lesser' distros can install in one try (and without rebooting > several times), sur