Re: OT: Installing Debian (was Re: Latest GNAT version)

[randhol@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no (Preben Randhol)]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
>This would be a last resort; yet more CD-ROMs to burn.  The Debian
>installer in Sarge is quite easy to use; this is my experience from
>past Linux Copy/Install Parties.  Of course, Preben, you probably
>never used it.  One of the niceties of Debian is that you only ever
>install it once; instead, you just "apt-get upgrade" from release to
>relase.

This is true, but I did a clean install after Debian released the last
stable just now. I didn't need to as you say, but I wanted to cleanup a
bit my system as I have been testing too many different programs and
also to document the customisations I do. When I install Debian on other
computers it is nice to be able to customise them in 15 min and not 15
hours because one has forgotten what one did 3 years ago when setting up
a specific server. Another point is that configuration files have a
tendency to evolve and while one do not usually need to do any manual
changes one can miss out on new features if one doesn't pay attention.
So after 3-4 years of upgrading I found it was time to do a clean
install :-)

Anyway the Debian installer is very good and I like that it isn't
graphical but text-based.

Preben