[TAG] Article Ideas

[Thomas Adam]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:57:47 -0700
Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Geoff Ericksson (gbe at acmc.uq.edu.au):
> 
> > The debian installer doesn't play well with my hardware (Dell
> > Inspiron 8000 laptop).  
> 
> _Which_ installer?
> See "Installers" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/

The new d-i installer (beta4) should handle that.
 
> > From what I have seen, the debian distribution, once installed,
> > seems rather nice.  I'm wondering if the way to get debian going is
> > to install with Knoppix?
> 
> You could do that, and many do.  One downside is that the result is
> sort of Debian, but a little eccentric in a number of ways.

And a bad idea, IMO.

-- Thomas Adam

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