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.
> 
> 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.

Funny, debian was the only Un*x I could easily install on my Epson
ActionNote laptop.  NetBSD still won't because the Toshiba drive those
come with detects LBA when it shouldn't.  I've been trying to get around
to mentioning that for some time now, and figure this is as good a time as
any.  Can't give exact model numbers because I don't have the thing here
at work with me.  But debian worked first shot.  (I greatly dislike the
debian package system though -- to the extent that I'm currently running
NetBSD even with the bad detection :-)

Erich