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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. What about O'Reilly by Suppafly · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Why isn't there an O'Reilly book entitled "Installing Linux in a Nutshell" or "Installing Linux for n00bs" or something. The picture could be a drooling idiot or something.

  2. Re:installers my arsenipples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you forgot..

    blah blah BSD!

    bla bla CowboyNealOS...

  3. 802.11b support? by Razorviro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it very easy to set configure a 802.11b PCI NIC in Debian? I got it to work in RedHat 7.3, put it was kind of a pain in the ass.

  4. Re:A good start but... by nitehorse · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hmmm. Gentoo includes the nVidia drivers. :)

    (Gentoo is source-based, in case you didn't know. but having nVidia-based X with the SGI GL is a few 'emerge's away, and requires zero screwing with config files.)

    -clee