[CLUE-Talk] easiest distro to install

[Dennis J Perkins]

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> On Monday 18 August 2003 07:16 am, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > I was asked which distro is easiest to install.  I'm told Mandrake is one
> > of the easiest but I don't know how easy it is for a non-techie to install.
> >  He doesn't want any technical questions.  Is there a distro that doesn't
> > ask about partitions, etc?
> >
> > BTW, if anyone thinks Windows is easy to install or uninstall, we tried to
> > switch from XP to W2K last Friday.  The setup program said that we were
> > trying to install a version of Windows that is older than the installed
> > version and disabled itself.  Yep, it greyed out the Install
> > button.
> >
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> Personally, I have found that Mandrake is one of the easiest, and from what I 
> understand, the auto install is very easy.
> 
> But to be fair, I would suspect that all major commercial distros  are easy 
to 
> install. I have not installed debian in a very long time, but I thought it 
> was a pain in comparision.
> 
> So it comes down to what you want to run.
> 

I've been playing with LFS and I use Debian, so I have not looked at the other 
distros for a while.  I have no idea how easy they might be to
install.