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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: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