Blogging Ottinger (tim)DI: The Debian Installer for 3.1 (Sarge)
Well, this was my first shot. I loved it. It did a very fine job of hardware detection, simplified disk setup, initial app selection. Congratulations to the Debian Installer team. You guys came a very long way with this. This was the easiest installer I’ve ever used, much easier than Windows (any version). It was almost as easy as a live CD boot. Wow.
I don’t know what you’ll do to top it. Even if it was not graphical, it was ridiculously simple. I had one hardware problem, a crummy ethernet card (built into the board) .
This was a joy anyway, because this is one more machine that won’t be running windows again. My in-laws will be free of the upgrade treadmill and will be able to run without the windows popup adware and viruses. Live will be more normal. Ahhhh.
What are MD5SUMS and MD5SUMS.sign used for. MD5SUMS contains the iso names with what appears to be something that is encrypted. MD5SUMS.sign looks like versioning?
Comment by Steve — 2005-October-31 @ 05:58
md5sum is a cryptographic sum used to verify that your file was correctly downloaded. If you run md5sum on your downloaded file, it should match the md5sum exactly. Otherwise, there are errors (however small) in your download, and you should not trust it.
Comment by Tim — 2005-November-1 @ 04:46