Re: Install Concept

[Michael Banck]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:50:07PM +0100, Filip Brcic wrote:
> ???????? Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:20, Michael Banck ???? 
> ??????????????(????):
> > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:32:46PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > >    In the past, the Debian installer was completely unusable for me.
> > >    I could not even figure out how to start it,
> >
> > You put the CD into the drive and boot.
> 
> Debian Installer for GNU/Hurd, for example, never worked well. For some 
> reason 
> they never did install the grub into the mbr (which is not hurd specific 
> operation). The other problem with debian-installer for hurd is that it 
> required user to manualy start /native-install (twice) to bootstrap the 
> system. 

Well, sure. The Debian GNU/Hurd installer is just a hack or a
placeholder based on some 90s technology.  Everybody acknowledges that
and I was not talking about that.  The idea is to use the regular
debian-installer at some point, but nobody has stepped up to do so.


Michael