Debian revisited
I need some way to backup the ailing windows box upstairs, whihc is
suffering from an advanced form of WinXP palsy. So I grabbed an old
266Mhz box from the closet, installed a bigger disk, downloaded the
sarge iso via Bittorrent and installed Debian for the first time in
2 years.
I’m using OpenBSD for the most part these days, but I couldn’t be bothered to find diskettes and boot from them, then install via the network. So I went the easy route and installed Linux instead.
Debian is still hard to understand. In some ways it’s more limited
than OpenBSD — you can’t say that your box will get its network
configurations from DHCP if you’re not hooked up to a network already,
and the partition program is hard to fathom. The replacement for the
infamous dselect, aptitude, is really just more of the same, but a
bit less counter-intuitive.
But in general, I know my way around Debian well enough to get going. Now I have to decide whether just to copy everything in the “Documents and Settings” subdirectories over via FTP, or to trust the Migration wizard in Windows.
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