Debian Sarge Installation Slide Show 35
brunotorres writes "I've made an slide-show, presenting the steps of Debian sarge (testing) installation. I put images of all relevant steps of the installation and a brief description of each one. It's nice to notice that debian-installer is much more straightforward and user friendly in sarge than it was in woody."
Aren't There Some OSS Graphical Installers? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Aren't There Some OSS Graphical Installers? (Score:4, Interesting)
As far as the Ubuntu installer goes, you're actually looking at the exact same installer, just with fewer questions asked.
Re:Aren't There Some OSS Graphical Installers? (Score:5, Informative)
debian-installer has hooks for supporting FD based installers, but as of this moment, no one has written such a beast. [Not that it's all that big of a deal anyway, as you can basically install Debian by just repeatedly pressing enter.]
Anyway, this question is well covered in the D-I FAQ. [debian.net]
Installers Should Not Say "Partioning" (Score:3, Interesting)
Here's the problem: They all assume the person doing the install knows what "partioning" means. That's an invalid assumption. Users are faced with dire warnings about the destruction of your hard drive and numerous unexplained option.
Some Linux installs try to avoid this by simply offering to "take over" the entire drive. That's a brute force approach that isn't attractive to many people.
Re:Aren't There Some OSS Graphical Installers? (Score:2)
Of course, there
Re:Aren't There Some OSS Graphical Installers? (Score:1)
I am a Linux user since the times you had to get a wagon load of disks from somwhere to install. So I am pretty familliar with partitioning disks.
That said, I find that the Debian installer is the worst partitioning interface I have ever seen. I don't know why, but it confuses be a lot. I find using plain fdisk easier. When I use it, I alsways have the feeling that I may have selected the worng options. Somehow the partitioning tool isn't able to clearly show me the state of the partitionings.
Well, I am
Re:Looks pretty standard.. (Score:1)
That's the cool thing about D-i (Debian-installer), it's front-end independant, so that could be done easily without a code rewrite.
Re:Looks pretty standard.. (Score:1)
No, I don't, and while I'm not thinking I might as well say that the woody boot floppies were better than D-i.
OT (Re:Looks pretty standard..) (Score:1)
Knoppix can install debian testing (Score:1, Interesting)
To install Knoppix:
boot with the Knoppix CD
Open a terminal and:
$ su root
# knoppix-installer
and away you go.
Re:Knoppix can install debian testing (Score:1)
Re:Knoppix can install debian testing (Score:1)
LinuxCD ships the burned CD for $3.89.
Knoppix is too different than Sarge for a HD install. Mepis is made for it. Alot more is done after a mepis install than a Knoppix HD install. I've done both.
IMHO Mepis is where you start. This way, you have many options for upgrading.
I use mepis 2004.4 and it's 2.6 Kernel.
http://www.mepis.com
Ubuntu (Score:1)
Re:Ubuntu (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Ubuntu (Score:4, Informative)
Ubuntu doesn't use Anaconda, you must be confusing it with Progeny.
/* Steinar */
Re:Ubuntu (Score:2, Informative)
Hardware detection still lacking (Score:2)
Thats nice. (Score:2)
Expert mode? (Score:2)
Oh well. One day.
Re:Expert mode? (Score:3, Interesting)
No, it isn't from expert mode -- OTOH he's consequently picking the manual route where he could have gone for automatic behaviour (at least in the boot process and the partitioning). Most of the screens are non-interactive or can normally be answered by pressing "enter" anyhow, so it's not really that hard :-)
/* Steinar */
Re:Expert mode? (Score:3, Informative)
A Good Start... (Score:2, Interesting)
On the second step [brunotorres.net] of the installer, it asks you to select a region. On this screen, there appears to be perhaps a menu and then a <Go Back> button at the bottom. When I first saw this screen, the on
more Debian-Installer slide-shows (Score:1)
A view from the side (Score:2)
Question is: how can we all help you guys keep up to o speed?
Please flame me. Passionate discussion is good.
courtesy of deborah and ian (Score:1)
Re:courtesy of deborah and ian (Score:1)
Apparently, yes.
Thanks but no thanks (Score:1)
It's as though you think we already don't know how to breath!
You efforts would have been better spent documenting the OpenBSD installer, although, thats already done in their website.
Slightly off topic, how about making the installer work fully over the serial port, that would make my monitor switching from workstation to new server much less frequent as I have a null modem cable that I can use only post install.