Re: Install Concept

[Trevor Vallender]

> Agreed.  I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux on a machine (using the
> a new installer), and it wasn't that much better.

Sorry to just jump in on the conversation, but I'll just say a couple of
things. Firstly Ubuntu's installer is a *much* simpler version of
Debian's. I think it's exactly the same, with less questions. Then
again, I thought Debian's installer was okay, so we might disagree on
that as well.

As for Ututo, when I made an (admittedly not very committed) attempt at
installing it, I didn't get past the installer. I think this *might*
have just been one bad experience, but I couldn't figure out whether the
partitioner had actually written to the hdd or not (it hadn't), and then
I got a whole host of other random errors, which I'd never got with any
other distro on the same hardware. Unsure if this is the installer or
just Ututo.

Finally, I don't know how you feel about graphical installers (obviously
with an option to go text-based, sorry if you've already discussed
this), but Fedora (and BLAG, a 100% free distro based on it) use a great
graphical installer called Anaconda. Information and screenshots
available at
http://fedora.redhat.com/About/Projects/anaconda-installer/ . IMHO it's
the easiest installer I've used. I think Ubuntu was also making an
attempt to move over to a graphical installer for the next release,
though I'm not sure what they plan on using.

Thanks,
Trevor Vallender.