I'm fairly new to Debian too. It took me a while to get the 1st install done due to hardware problems. I have since discovered that I only needed the 1st CD to do a network install. But if you don't have at least DSL, it's gonna take forever. Also, and this is a matter of philosophy, you'll find that what gets included in the unstable release is generally a version or 2 behind what the other distributions included in their last release. That, and that configuring apt-get to do what you want it to is difficult to say the least. Though to be fair, it does do a good job of getting the basic stuff. I've not been able to get an X server/desktop environment, or a mail reader, or a decent editor going either.
I'm just about to give up on Debian. there's nothing it can do poorly that I haven't been able to do better in RedHat (so far). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
