Need some Sarge Info

[Malkosha]

I'm such a noob but curious. I keep tying all these Deb clones and was thinking maybe I should try the real thing for once. It may solve most of my problems and at the least I will have a great idea how things really work.

I have a few questions however (you knew that was coming right?) :p

I was thinking about installing Sarge .. which I assume is the version that is now frozen. Is this correct? If so, what kernel version is it? If I'm reading things right it’s at 2.6.11 but I may be wrong. I don't know what is installed in the distro itself, but since I really like KDE I assume I could just apt-get that if it’s not already there as well as anything else I may want.

Does the net install give you package choices that can be downloaded as the install progresses or does it just bring me to a prompt and I have to go from there? Any enlightenment would be welcome.

Thanks in advance!

[Icarus]

I've installed Debian once and it wasn't too bad of a process (do they have a GUI for it yet?)

It does give you a package selection during the install, but I did find it a little cumbersome and took a little time to figure out.

But once you have a base installed it was a lot easier to just apt-get what you wanted. By default Debian installs nothing so it's a clean system with out anything.

Yes, Sarge is the one that is frozen and will be moving to 'stable' very soon. I'm not sure what kernel it uses though.

[CoffeeMan]

I've installed Debian once and it wasn't too bad of a process (do they have a GUI for it yet?) You don't need a gui, all you will do is keep clicking the same buttons and then it is done. The ncurses installer may not look as good, but it is just as good, you just have to use enter and tab instead of the mouse buttons.

[Icarus]

I didn't say the non-gui installer is terrible, just the package selection part...It was a long time ago but I found the dpkg setup thingy :) slow and non-descriptive, it even missed a bunch of dependancies on me

But that was almost 4 years ago and apt-get was great for putting things back together

[LNXchd]

The net install is quite simple. Using apt-get is alot easier than dselect. Usually takes care of dependencies as well...not always...ran into a couple of programs it did not. I have ran into a couple of problems where a program would not install but was advised by debian to use the dpkg -f install command which installed the correct modules it needed to install correctly. Good Luck!