Debian 2.0 woes

[Forrest Cahoon <forrest@pconline.com>]

I finally got my Debian 2.0 disks from Linux System Labs, and setting
it up has been a horror.

To make a long story short, the installation depends on symlinks,
which are broken on the CD (they're just zero-byte files).

I ended up having to copy the whole dang thing to my hard disk and
re-create the symlinks in order to get the install to work correctly.

It's enough to make me disk-usted with Debian and LSL, but since when
I'm faced with a challenge like that I have to figure out what the
problem is, I now have successfully installed Debian 2.0 and think
that I will keep it for a while.

Oh did I mention that the boot disk somehow creamed my BIOS settings?
"Bad CMOS checksum -- using defaults".  I've never seen that before,
but I did it twice in a row with their boot disk.

Sheesh.

Forrest
(still sigless on his new installation ... I'm getting there)