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guitard00d
2003-11-13, 21:39 PM
I'm trying to set up Debian on a system at home so I can try to get the hang of it, but every time I try to install it, there's always some kind of an error reported about a package that failed to install correctly. I'm just installing the base system off the first CD and telling apt-get to download all of the other parts.

Maybe I'm not a "real admin" according to Knightfoo's signature and that's what the problem is. But I would tend to think that if Debian is celebrating its 10th birthday, 10 years would seem to be long enough to create a reliable installation routine.

It just seems to me that Debian is more of a project than a product and they could afford a few more "finishers" to take over where the "developers" seem to have dropped the ball. I'm not suggesting that they dummy it down, I just think they need to smarten it up.

These bugs just make that whole Fedora Project that much more appealing to me...

knightfoo
2003-11-13, 21:46 PM
The Debian installer may not be the friendliest out there, but I would say it is one of the most reliable. If you're installing from the official Debian ISOs then you might need the first two CDs to complete the install. Personally I've never used a CD to install Debian. In the 2.x days the base system fit on 6 floppies and with 3.x I started using pxeboot network installs. If you don't have the network infrastructure for PXE installations, you may want to try the netinst ISOs.

-knightfoo