[ale] Debian installation

Marvin Dickens mpdickens at tlanta.com
Tue May 20 23:47:41 EDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 22:28, James Sumners wrote:
> I am assuming that you do not mean installing Debian on to the same partitions
> as Red Hat; my hurts trying to think of that resulting file system.

That would definately be fugly.

> But anyway, Debian does not care where it is installed. The only matter is your
> boot loader.

I got it installed. It took me about 2 hours (Of which 60% of was
waiting on security fix downloads from debian.org). Everything went
without a hitch, but I was surprised that debian still uses lilo as the
boot loader. FWIW, the installation procedure is reminesent of redhat or
caldera from around 1996 or 97. It's very manual and you've got to know
the hardware in your system as well as the functionality of the modules
you need.  

To me, Debian appears much more UNIX like than SuSE or RedHat, but less
UNIX like than Slackware. It was a pain to set up (But, less of a pain
than Slackware), but at first glance, it appears that it was probably
worth it.

Now to figure out how to make a .deb package...


Best

M. Dickens

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