[lug] mandriva 10.2 limited edition 2005

[Michael Belanger]

On Wed, August 31, 2005 9:50 am, David Bell said:
> Uh, I've never had such a problem. You download one CD - the minimal
> boot CD or the first CD, and then you set your APT repository to HTTP or
> FTP, and then you just download the rest. Given that most people have
> high-speed internet connections (and in this area, like me, Comcast
> Cable), it's not difficult to do.

Part of the problem, I am guessing, is that the failure was on x86_64.  I
don't mind occasional dependency problems, fedora is the same way.  But
this was just selecting the basic workstation options, very vanilla. It
could also be that it may have grabbed some packages off of the security
updates deb site which had dependencies not included on the spindle.

I did have better luck on Intel chipsets using the net install method. 
But it was my servers that I was really hoping to use Debian with.

>
> I've never had a problem with installing Debian... Installing Ubuntu or
> Fedora, those I've had plenty of problems with ;)

They all bring pain and grief one way or another.  It is the nature of
complex systems.  In the end, I chose to use what I was most used to.