<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">"You wrote a how-to on installing debian? Surely they have their own documentation?"</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div>It isn't so much a "how to" more a "how I did it". I try to keep notes, especially if I have to look something up like configuring the nvidia cards. I can be very forgetful and the wiki makes it easy to copy/paste terminal commands for later reuse.<div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">I found Debian very easy to install on my laptop, but i didn't</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">document it as it just went on so easily with the GUI. Everything just<br>worked, except i'm still struggling to get a network connection, but<br>
i'm hoping that goes okay when i get round to working on it."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font><div>
I could have made life a lot easier for myself using the GUI installer (I think I'll do that tonight if I get time). I was trying to see if I could do a very minimal installation, sadly the whole experiment backfired on me. I will try again to make myself feel better!</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Debian rocks. Ubuntu is the dark side. Use the force Luke.</span>"</div>
<div><br></div><div>While part of me agrees with this, I am just left with memories of how much Ubuntu did for me in the setup in comparison to Debian. It is a personal choice about how much you want the install/setup to do/choose for you etc... I think I will try the GUI installer later (if I get time) and do a more like with like comparison.</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 March 2011 10:19, James Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://jwm.art.net">jwm.art.net</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Debian rocks. Ubuntu is the dark side. Use the force Luke.<br>
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On 29 March 2011 00:19, George Prowse <<a href="mailto:george.prowse@gmail.com">george.prowse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 28/03/2011 22:36, David Halliday wrote:<br>
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>> Well, I tried debian again and fluxbox. My notes are on my wiki (15 mins<br>
>> to document a long two hours):<br>
>> <a href="http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:system:main_debian" target="_blank">http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:system:main_debian</a><br>
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>> <<a href="http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:system:main_debian" target="_blank">http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:system:main_debian</a>>Didn't<br>
>> go to plan, spent ages messing around with graphics card when all I<br>
>> needed to do was restart! Perhaps my next OS install will be Xubuntu.<br>
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> You wrote a how-to on installing debian? Surely they have their own<br>
> documentation?<br>
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