Subject: Re: Linux?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/11/2000 18:22:26
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000411160500.7265A-100000@nucleus>, fission writes:
> >If people think that installing NetBSD is challenging, they should try
> >Debian (hah).
>
> Distressingly, I'm told it's one of the nicer Linuxes.
Well, IMHO, it's not. =) It's downright mean.
> But yeah, I'm on my 4th try trying to get it to install. Currently, it says
> something about decompressing gs_fonts, and it's hung. If I kill the install,
> and manually deselect packages that aren't working, it looks like I can
> eventually get it running, but sheesh.
>
> -s
Yeah, Debian's evil. I can't get past the installer - I spent three hours
working on the dependancies once. *shudder*
--fission