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The Very Verbose Debian 3.0 Installation Walkthrough

Posted by timothy on from the making-possible-the-impossible dept.

Gentu writes "Cited the general displeasure which accompanied the Debian 3.0 release, mostly regarding its dated installation procedure, Clinton De Young wrote an easy-reading but long article for OSNews going through the Debian installation step by step. Of course Progeny released recently the PGI graphical installer, but it is not as complete as the current Debian text-based installer and it will definately be quite some time before it get adopted by the project."

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  1. Long installation manuals? by rob-fu · · Score: 4, Funny

    I haven't used Debian for quite some time since using Gentoo, I still think Gentoo's installation page is incredibly long. Or maybe it just seems that way because I'm waiting a really long, long time in between instructions that require compiling something.

    1. Re:Long installation manuals? by Dunkelzahn · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not trolling here, but after starting to read Gentoo's installation pages, I opted out to do a Linux system from scratch instead. Maybe I'm just lazy.

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  2. Arg! by labratuk · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the PGI graphical installer...

    AAArrrgggh! RAS syndrome!!

    (RAS: Redundant Acronym Syndrome)

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    1. Re:Arg! by MrEd · · Score: 4, Funny

      RAS syndrome!!
      That was the joke, right? ;-)

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  3. Re:Ease of use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's nothing wrong with text-based installers. In fact, the first half of the WinXP installer (if you're doing a clean install) is text-based

    so you're saying that if windows does it it is alright? do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?

  4. Spoiler alert! by tve · · Score: 5, Funny

    This walkthrough will give away all the secrets to the textadventure that is the Debian installer.

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    1. Re:Spoiler alert! by MullerMn · · Score: 3, Funny
      It is dark. You have been eaten by a grue.
  5. Re:Spelling Hurdles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The difference between a spell checker and a grammar checker is a hurdle for some.