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Some advantages:

• Much simpler than the laborious Debian install.
• Uses the newer grub boot loader.
• Uses discover to find hardware and to configure the hardware.

Some caveats:

• Can't think of any yet.

Install of base takes about 1 hour, depending on network connection. Install of all additional packages can take quite some time, depending on network connection. Connected to a local Debian mirror with high throughput took 1 hour.

The default for PGI is to use DHCP (an automated mechanism for obtaining an IP address from a DHCP server) to automatically obtain network information. If you don't have a DHCP server available then tell the installer using the nodhcp option:

boot: install nodhcp

The PGI install process proceeds to running gnome-tasksel. You can choose not to run this, or else select the tasks you would like installed and leave it to do so from the Progeny archive.

Once this is completed, update the installation with defaults for gdm.conf and apt's /etc/apt/sources.list. Your are then ready to ensure all appropriate packages are installed. Install synaptic to select further packages (after a dist-upgrade).

The configuration figlets used by PGI include:

dexlet	X Server configuration
etherconf	Configure the network: wajig reconfigure etherconf