Linked by Paul Hankes Drielsma on Tue 15th Apr 2003 06:40 UTC
I can't take anymore comments like "Debian/Gentoo/OpenBSD/etc. are not good/user-friendly because they lack a graphical installer." Searching the web, I couldn't find a comprehensive site describing the good and the bad about graphical installers for various OSes throughout the years, so in this article I hope to debunk a few of the myths on the basis of my own personal and professional experience.
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The Windows 2000 installation CD has four floppy images on it (I may be wrong here, but I think they were called something like .IMG). If you copy those onto disks, you can get access to a text installer. Similarly for Windows XP, booting from the installation CD (or a rescue CD from your manufacturer) can get you into a text-based install.