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felixdzerzhinsky
August 16th, 2005, 10:27 AM
I would appreciate if someone knowledgeable about Ubuntu and Debian had a look at this thread on Debian Help Forums:

http://www.debianhelp.org/module-pnForum-viewtopic-topic-9617-start-0.html

I am mystified by the fact I can install Ubuntu so easily on my laptop while debian sarge just won't go. Can anybody tell me why?

cutOff
August 16th, 2005, 02:49 PM
I wonder same thing.

poofyhairguy
August 16th, 2005, 03:05 PM
I am mystified by the fact I can install Ubuntu so easily on my laptop while debian sarge just won't go. Can anybody tell me why?

Well....Ubuntu has a heavily modified version of the Debian installer. But I can't tell why one would work on one computer and not another.

felixdzerzhinsky
August 16th, 2005, 03:13 PM
I was under the impression that improvements in Ubuntu were being fed back to Debian.

Having said that I guess that Debian do have to have an installer that works for a zillion architectures and that the pace of development is a bit slower for that reason.

cutOff
August 16th, 2005, 03:14 PM
Well....Ubuntu has a heavily modified version of the Debian installer. But I can't tell why one would work on one computer and not another.
any place where I could look for?