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Friendlier installFriendlier installPosted Oct 21, 2004 12:01 UTC (Thu) by joedrew (subscriber, #828)Parent article: Ubuntu Linux and the future of Debian
As I understand it, Ubuntu uses the standard debian-installer, so its install shouldn't be significantly friendlier (or different in any way, really) than Debian Sarge's installer.
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Friendlier install Posted Oct 21, 2004 18:04 UTC (Thu) by maney (subscriber, #12630) [Link] If you'd like to stop trying to understand from a distance and get close enough to try it yourself, you might learn something of interest. I've installed both from recent installer releases. I can't speak to the default disk partitioning, because I never use that; the rest of the install *is* simpler with Ubuntu IME. I can point to one mildly crufty piece of hardware - the "yenta" PCMCIA annoyance in our Inspiron laptop - that Debian trips over, but Ubuntu (and Libranet before it) handle just fine.So, no, just as the common origin of most of the packages (both started from a snapshot of Sid, more or less) don't mean the packages are all identical, the use of debian-installer doesn't insure they behave identically dusring the eraly install phase either. I'm thinking that Ubuntu ought to be described to Debian users as "Try it, you'll like it!" :-)
Friendlier install Posted Oct 22, 2004 2:57 UTC (Fri) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] The installer is based on debian-installer, but is fairly dramatically simplified.
Friendlier install Posted Oct 23, 2004 9:12 UTC (Sat) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link] Much as your explination of it has been. ;-)
(Most the the "dramatic simplification" is available by booting the standard debian installer with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical)
Friendlier install Posted Nov 1, 2004 18:48 UTC (Mon) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link] Joey, surely you realize that when that work began, the installation would fail in various ways if the priority was set to 'critical', and fixing those bugs was a significant part of our work on d-i.
Most, if not all, of that work has since been folded into d-i proper, but it isn't fair to trivialize it by implying that we simply changed the priority.
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