On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > Speakup friendly and that's very nice. There are parts of the Red Hat > installation which are tricky--such as the very critical disk > partitioning scripts called DiskDruid. I accepted the defaults the > Debian script chose, so I have no knowledge of how easy or hard it might > be to customize partitioning, though. I forget which program it uses. It is basicly a menu driven fdisk. It was accessible, but I didn't like it. I used it once or twice, and other times just flipped to another console, and used the regular fdisk, I believe. > alternatives. As it happens, it doesn't bother me too much to > systematically go through sub menus, but I imagine newbies might get > lost. I have found some very good reasons to go in alternative orders for certain installations, so indeed that is a useful option. > This raises a question: How does one get a list of all the apps > currently installed? I know how to do that with rpm, but I don't know > how to do it with apt, and I don't see the answer in the docs. This > becomes annoying after doing an apt-get update where I'm told something > like "2 packages to upgrade," but I have no notion of what ones are > goiong to be upgraded until after saying "yes" to "go ahead and do it" > under "apt-get upgrade." That ain't right. There is probably a way, although I can not call it immediately to mind. I know that you can run apt-get, in a test mode, so you can see what it would have done, without actually having it do it. I think I used that once, to see what would be upgraded. Luke
