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Paul Dwerryhouse <paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au> wrote:

> ...although you'd want to hope Debian's install methods have improved slightly
> since version 0.99, because it really didn't impress me too much back then
> when I tried it.

Gosh, an alpha version didn't impress you :)

The new installation is much improved, but like all software, it still
not perfect. The new installation procedure is very flexible.

I've successfully managed installation on a variety of machines in
a variety of ways, ranging from ftp installs onto 386SX16 machines with
4 Mb of ram up to NFS based installs on SCSI based machines. All of my
installations were relatively uneventful.

I haven't tried the 1.3.* installation procedure (why would I ? I do
in place upgrades now). I understand it is possible now to do, no floppy,
1 floppy or 5 floppy installations, depending upon where and how you will
be reading the debian package files and what hardware you have installed
in the target machine.

> Of course, the "installation" is far from the be-all and end-all of Linux,
> but if you were to have something strange about your setup (eg, weird hardware
> or weird config), then Slackware always seemed more flexible and more likely
> to get you a working system to me...

I personally rate installation as a relatively unimportant aspect.
Yes, it can be terribly frustrating experiencing problems when you are
inexperienced with a system, but I'd rather suffer one off problems
than ongoing disadvantages. The superior package management systems
of both debian and redhat make them attractive offerings in my opinion.

Terry