On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:37:08AM -0800, Bedford, Donald T. wrote: >Yes, if I may pipe-in on this one... I am a Debian newbie from the RH world >a few years back. Yes, my first install on a x86 box as anything but easy as >I build my own box. But, I now know more about my system than I ever did w/ >RH. This is why I chose the Debian path instead of re-installing RH on the >new system. > >Auto-detect would be nice but I sure learned a lot when it didn't... > >-don > I know what you mean. Part of the joy of Linux is that you take control of your own system. But IMO this should be a choice. Corel produced a Debain installer that was miles ahead of anything else out there. so we know that installing Debian can be done easily and properly in a gui setup. Somehwere, lwn.net I think, I saw details of a common Linux installer being developed. I wonder if theDebian project is interested in using such a thing. and at the start, you could have an option "Installation for manly geeks" vs "Installation for wusses"
Patrick