[Gllug] Traceroute query

[Ian Northeast]

Christopher Hunter wrote:

> Debian was just a real pain - the installer didn't work properly (ever - 
> despite rtying on several different machines), and I had to spend an 
> inordinate amount of time getting all the hardware working to my satisfaction 

You seem to have been rather unlucky then. I've installed Debian on 
serveral machines and the only one which gave trouble was an IBM TP 365 
which is seriously ancient and gave trouble with everything else I tried 
on it too (including Open and NetBSD) except Slackware. The likes of RH, 
Mandrake and SuSE wouldn't have a chance on this thing, with an 800MB 
hard disk. And I'm sure I could have got Debian in if I'd tried a bit 
harder - I didn't bother because Slackware was fine for the job in hand 
(being a serial console).

Laptops are generally the trickiest but everything on my Dell Latitude 
was detected properly and "just worked", including the combo 
modem/ethernet and the video. The only things I had to do with it were 
install some enhanced video drivers to get DVDs to play properly (it's 
only a P600 so it needs all the help it can get) and manually move the 
filesystems to LVM because the installer doesn't support it. The new 
Debain installer which is currently beta does support LVM, but I 
couldn't get it to work when I last tried. I'm sure this will be sorted 
out before it's released.

Regards, Ian






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