On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 09:47, benry wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 25 April 2004 13:42, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: > > Roman Rupp wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > i want to install debian 3.0r2 (woody?) on my Alphastation 500/333MHz, > > > and my problem is that when i come to tasksel during the installation > > > sometimes i can choose x-window system to install and sometimes not. I > > > have a Matrox Millenium 2 Card with 12 MB and this is a xfree86 > > > compatible card isn't it? > > > > tasksel sucks, use dselect instead and you will be very happy :) > > use: > > apt-get install x-window-system-core > > instead and you will be much more happy :P > p.s. > in this way it won't install any window manager, so you'll need to do it by > hand later, for example: > > apt-get install wmaker
[Incidentally, this is a good reason to use dselect instead of apt, particularly during first install; also apt will miss important Suggested packages like xfonts-base, and woody's apt doesn't even list them...] -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg
