Joseph A Nagy Jr said: > Okay. My problem. I cannot reinstall RedHat. So, since I was planning on > making the switch to Debian, I figured now would be the best time to ask > (before I use the Debian Woody r0 3.0 cd's I downloaded ages ago) on > whether or not there is a GUI installer for Debian. If so, where? I've > been looking on debian.org, but all I could find was info on netinstall > cd's (of which for the latest stable releaser there are only unofficial > ISO images) for sarge. Am I missing something? > > Please clue me in. TIA.
if you mean is there a fancy X11-based installer with bells and whistles the answer is no. Debian is much less glamerous(sp). Part of this is due to their policy. What they run has to run on ALL of their platforms. So an X11-based installer that worked on x86, sparc, and alpha but not powerpc, ia64, s390, arm, and mips would not(I believe) ever be released as part of an "official" installer on the CD(s). another part is, the debian installer infrastructure is really old and hard to maintain. the developers are hard at work totally redoing everything to make it easier to maintain, which means easier to extend, which means easier to make such an installer available. In the past I read that they tried, but never had enough time to complete such a change in the code before the freeze in the next release. the last time I heard about the project it was here: http://people.debian.org/~mbc/di.html not sure if that's still the current incarnation or if it's still under active development or what. Debian is one of the more difficult distributions to install, it can be VERY VERY difficult if your hardware is not supported so it is CRITICAL that you exaime what hardware you have, if you have doubts post to the list your details and someone can tell you whether or not you can get it working. I build my systems SPECIFICALLY so they are compadible with debian, which means my installations are always flawless/painless. If you have some USB modem, or bleeding edge radeon 9700 video card with a audigy sound board and a firewire digital camera with serial ATA hard disks chances are your gonna have a lot of trouble getting all that working in debian. If you have a P3-1000mhz with 1GB ram, Adaptec SCSI hard disks and SCSI cdroms, with a Matrox video card and intel/3com NICs you'll have a much easier time installing. once a system is fully installed and configured debian is a breeze to maintain(I only run stable, no testing/unstable for me). nate (experience running 2 dozen unix and linux variants for the past 8 years) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
