On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:46:47PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > [ snip ] > > > >> > I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long > >> > time that they've forgotten what it is like. Perhaps that's why the > >> > installer is so bare bones. > >> > >> Pretty sure you've nailed it there. > > > > I disagree. I think the debian installer has always been minimalist > > because in the beginning all debian users were the kind of people who > > knew their hardware inside and out, knew what was going to be asked > > and what the responses should be, and thus did not care about fancy > > interfaces and sensible prompts. > > Err, I don't think any installer existed in the beginning of Debian. > And, it took at least a few years before installers for any distro began > to get fancy.
Huh? What was that program on the rescue + root that I used to install rex? > These days, I think the installer is minimalistic because it has to be > ported to so many arches (11 for woody). It's significantly more > difficult to write a fancy installer that also works on all the arches > Debian supports. I'll grant you that. In fact, I like that the install looks and behaves about the same whether I'm on an Ultra 30 or an Athlon. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
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