[Gllug] Re: Debian hopeless

[Simon MORRIS]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:10:59PM +0000, Garry Heaton wrote:
> I'm in no way anti-Debian per se, just anti time-wasting with half-baked
> software so I suppose Debian just ain't for me.
> 
> Unless you mean apt-get from the CD-ROMs I'm using the machine has no
> network connection and is joined to a broadband LAN so that option is
> ruled-out. In any case I was hoping to promote Debian in my teaching work
> but if hardware is such a non-starter then I'll stick with Fedora Core which
>  I installed on the same machine in about 20mins.
> 
> Debian detected the VIA-rhine ethernet contoller but then claimed it
> couldn't load a module for it. Work that one out. Even worse, I selected
> Partition Disk and nothing happened. Straight back to the menu.

If you run apt-setup you should be able to apt-get it from the CD-ROMS.

The Sarge installer is in the testing tree, so maybe you would have more
fun with Woody which is stable by name and nature

Go on, give it 5 more mins and try discover ;-)


-- 
Simon Morris
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 196 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/attachments/20040307/6f0b6972/attachment.pgp>
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug