cliche: [SLUG] A deb experiance.

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxx>]

Secret Debian Conversion Officer,

Another conversion in progress. All signs positive. I believe Project
'Subtle Hint' is falling into place quite nicely.

- Jeff Waugh
  Second Class Debian Weenie


----- Forwarded message from Rodos <rodos@xxxxxxxxxxx> -----

Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:37:12 +1000 (EST)
From: Rodos <rodos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SLUG] A deb experiance.
X-message: What did you expect to find here?

Well I put debian onto a machine tonight. After doing many RedHat installs
it was a different experiance. 

Everything went quite smooth. I had a problem with the network card. First
because I had some suspect cards and at the same time I was not sure if it
was auto detecting them or if I had to work it out myself. After some
tinkering and lots of reinstalls I found a card that worked, an old
RealTek and the driver to use.

After that I let it get an address via DHCP and it was underway. Install
complete and the system was running.

I did a dselect and somehow managed to get it to install some extra stuff
from mirror.aarnet.edu.au. It was reasonably painless.

I then did a 'apt-get install netscape' and lo and behold about 10 seconds
later it was finished and netscape was there. I then did enlightenment and
eterm (something I was never able to get to run under RedHat) and it wall
worked fine (even Java in netscape).

I have to find out where the docs are and a few other things but basically
its Linux so I don't feel lost.

Um, I could get use to this, especially when I can just point it at
mirror.aarnet and install stuff very quickly!

Rodos

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