[Cumbria] The guy has a point...

[Chris Plant]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 09:36, Ken Hough wrote:
> Chris Plant wrote:
> 
> > 
> >On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 17:06, Ken Hough wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Can you garrantee that?  In any case the installer is called upon to add 
> >>/ delete software packages as well as the original install.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >It isn't.  Except for *spit* yast, I can't think of any other distro
> >that works like that, all of them use the package manager during the
> >install, but very few use the installer as the maintenance system.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I won't tolerate the likes of the Slackware installer.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Ever tried debian ?  Or, Windows 2000, "Press F6 Quickly!"
> >
> >  
> >
> Making excuses for lousy software is not, INHO, the way to go  -- MS 
> included.
I didn't make any excuses for lousy software, I'm perfectly happy with
the Debian installer, it doesn't need 32meg of ram for a start.
> 
> I've got used to YAST and it works. Since SuSE v8, YAST1 has been 
> dropped so all maintenance efforts now
> go into YAST2 which can run either in text (ncurses) or graphics modes.
Yawn.
> 
> I'm finding that the Red Hat installer is similar to YAST2 as far as 
> installation is concerned, with most of
> general format and options being familier.
Of course it is, there isn't that much scope for changing the way an
install works, you load modules, pick a language, etc.  Can't change the
order.
> 
> Am presently installing Red Hat on my old laptop after rectifying a real 
> screw up (partition table error)
> caused by a Slackware install that went wrong. This will again be a dual 
> boot (Linux /MS) system.
The installer probably called fdisk for you to partition, in which case,
only you could have damaged the partition table.

Chris

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