i prefer the ncurses based installer myself, but people comming from the "other" OSs probably prefer something a little more familiar. before linux i was one of those "command line? eek!!" people aswell. now when i use one of the "other" OSs i keep wanting to bring up a prompt.
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 3/12/99 Bart Szyszka wrote: > > >Now what makes Windows so incapable of having these same problems? > >I've never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer > >on a system that just had DOS because of video hardware. > > <shrug> perhaps because win95 has a bazillion drivers? the generic > X servers cover a pretty decent number of video cards, slowly, and at > 640x480 with a 40hz refresh :-), dunno about you but I would prefer a > console ncurses based installer to a huge headache. (well I prefer > console based installs to pointy clicky installs anyway but maybe > that's just me) > > most of the time the X based installs fail for me, I avoided the > linuxppc one after a friend had it bork the install several times > (unrelated to X itself but rather creating an inode for every 32K > instead of 4 or 8, and pretending 80% of the packages did not exist > so the resulting system was nonfuntional) and redhat's 6.1 X > installer never loaded on my box when I took a look at it. > > Long live Debian GNU/Linux console based install ! > > :-) > > Ethan > >
