[Cumbria] The guy has a point...

[Michael Saunders]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Ken Hough wrote:

> IMHO, a vital aspect of such installations is the installer
> programme. Am trying them on my old laptop.

A decent installer is always a good start, but providing the system
can be upgraded easily, it's not always that important -- some Debian
and FreeBSD users say that their rather plain installers aren't an
issue, as once installed, you'll never have to install again.

(BTW, it's just "program" not "programme"!)

> There are no <Back> options during the setup proceedures and to add
> insult to injury, after going through the whole procedure, the
> system wasn't bootable! The latter was probably down to me, but I
> don't know why -- looks like LILO (chosen instead of grub, because I
> know LILO) got in a twist. Based on this (IMHO dreadfull) installer,
> I won't bother with Slackware again.

Slack has always been like that -- attempts to avoid distractions or
being hindering to the long-time user. Most graphical installers
thesedays provide an appropriately flexible path for those who need
it, but some (i.e. Corel) which try to make as many automatic
decisions as possible would leave you screaming for Slack's...

> Am trying out / installing Red Hat on the laptop, just now.  Have
> already got Red Hat running on a desktop PC.

Top stuff.

Mike

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