[wellylug] Linux admin advice

[Brent Wood]

--- Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> wrote:
> 20 HOURS!!!!!!!!!
> 
> What are they smoking....
> 
> Come on this is a distro based on Debian..
> 
> apt-get install blah blah blah blah blah
> 
> It goes away and installs -- 20 hours my rear end!!!

Maybe you stay & watch the whole thing & use a dial up for all downloads as a
money spinner?

> 
> if there was setup of the databases and set up of apache and all that 
> crap, maybe --- no not even come to think of it...
> 
> from barebones system (laptop) to fully working ubuntu setup, 2 hours 
> max is all it took me

About how I felt when I got told. Although I don't know if your laptop had
apache/tomcat/PostGRES/PostGIS/php installed, but that still doesn't get to 20
hrs. 

> 
> admitted I dont like ubuntu, and now sarge is frozen, will be making my 
> back to the beloved, but 20 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, right!

> 
> Where these contractors?
> 

Not saying. But I do hope to take the issue further...


Brent