Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

#include <hallo.h>
* Andrei Popescu [Tue, Feb 06 2007, 10:43:32PM]:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:06:11 -0500
Michael Pobega <pobega@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Where is the graphical installer, anyway? I'd love to try it out
myself, I haven't got the chance (I just used NetInstall's default
curses installer).

Just boot with 'installgui' or 'expertgui'.

I've had bad experiences with Kubuntu myself. I convinced my brother to
try it, but it would freeze at loading KDE. He was pretty disappointed
and gave up. Now I want to give it another try with etch as I am more
experienced and I know Debian much better anyway.

Such freezing at KDE start may be a typical hardware problem. For
example, my brother has a really broken sound chip on his laptop and
there was similar freezing when the start sound was to be played.

In such cases, changing the distro won't help you much.

Eduard.

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