"The Debian installer sucks!" People saying this are astonished to hear me reply "Which one?" Such commentators usually want a naive-user-friendly, preferably graphical installer that aggressively probe hardware (which they know little about), and don't give a damn about non-i386 architectures. They don't value network installs, broad choice of journaling filesystems (XFS, JFS), flexibility, small installer images, or sparse initial installs.
I thought this was going to be cooler than it turned out to be. He considers Knoppix a Debian installer. :(
Posted by jshare at March 16, 2004 08:03 PM