Disk partitioning and swap

[Mike Bilow]

Jerry Feldman wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

> Debian 2.1 is not significantly different from 2.0 in the installation
> procedure.  While Debian's installation front-end is not very friendly,
> almost anyone should be able to get a reasonable result by taking all of
> the defaults.

 JF> There should be a new, faster package manager. I downloaded
 JF> 2.1, but  have not installed it.

I don't know.  I didn't see much difference between 2.0 and 2.1, but it's hard
for me to compare because I have never actually tried both on the same machine.
 The user interface of "dselect" is functionally similar, but the prepared
package thing is new.

Personally, I would like to see something that was MUCH faster than the
"dselect" utility, but it is hard to do that since it is just a front-end for
"dpkg" that does all the real work.

 JF> I am currently installing Windows98 on my wife's  system, and 
 JF> it is a real pain. I have a 10MB hard drive and I am doing a 
 JF> clean install. I would love to get her onto Linux, but there is 
 JF> little chance.

Install Gnome and tell her it's Windows 99.  :)
 
-- Mike


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