[Cialug] Did the Debian installation get easier with Sarge?

Theron Conrey cialug@cialug.org
Mon, 23 May 2005 17:41:01 -0500


Barry Von Ahsen wrote:

> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>
>> So I heard Theron's endorsement of Debian and decided to put it on a 
>> machine
>> this weekend.  I think it was Debian Sarge (3.x something).
>>
>> Last time I must have tried with Woody and the installation process 
>> was very
>> manual.  It went much better than I remember this time.  Is the 
>> installation
>> much improved with Sarge?  Do most Debian users use Sarge, or is 
>> Woody still
>> preferred?
>
>
> it did get much easier, to the point if you have slightly older 
> hardware or well-supported hardware, all you have to do is partition. 
> auto-detection and auto-configuration were the big pushes with the new 
> installer
>
> -barry
>
>
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*ditto* and so on