Actually the very first thing I did was download the new sarge 2 weeks ago, and I did so with excitement and high expectations. And I will say this for other people's benefit it is definitely a beta installer. It gave me a various range of problems that I won't go into; plus; it seems as though it actually gave me less autonomy although there was an expert mode I did not use. In particular the bootloader process was f$cked and it caused me some serious annoyances as it either would not work at all which really becomes a problem when you are working with a laptop that has no floppy to boot from or when it did work it over wrote my windows MBR screwing up my windows(shh don't tell anyone) install. I don't know what the exact intent was in re-doing the installer and i am sure there is an important underlying reason, but it is unfortunate that it makes the already hardest distribution to install harder. Debian vexes me so...Such a great distribution yet sometimes it can be such a hassle to install. I hope the end result of this revamp will prove to be worthy. Maybe it is just my own lack of knowledge but I just don't believe it should be this hard...Anyways I could go on and on....By the way what I don't understand is why sarge isn't coming with an option to load the 2.6 kernel, who really wants the 2.4 kernel at this point?
> wex wrote: > >> Yes I guess you are correct I am just trying to avoid the obvious i >> guess. >> Getting linux on this laptop is a pain in the ass, it is fightin me >> every >> step of the way, if I don't win soon I am either going to have to start >> using windows or give it away. > > You could try the latest beta of the new installer: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > It installs Sarge, not Woody, and comes with the 2.4.25 kernel. You'll get > newer versions of Gnome, KDE, etc. and probably have better hardware > support. > > Adam > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
