On 3/24/2020 10:54 AM, tim taler wrote: > Hi all, > > I experience a strange behaviour of the debian buster installer. > > I want to do a preseeded installation of a minimalistic buster system > with only one partition (no swap even). > > What ever I try, if I don't configure: > "d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select multi! > in the preseed file > tasksel is completely ignored and d-i will install 1370 > packages, including the desktop (and libre-office :-)) ... > > I tried all combinations of partition and tasksel with the same result: > > d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select multi --> minimal installation > as desired > d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select (atomic|home) --> desktop install > d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string (any configuration with and > without swap, same config as "multi" from above) --> desktop install > > Haven't found anything about that yet on the net? > Can somebody confirm? >
I use 'atomic' and only the pkgs I choose are installed but no 'desktop'. > My setup is a manual installed minimalistic buster with apache2 > serving the preseed file > and a second instance trying to do the auto install by: >>From the boot menu choose: "Advanced options" --> "Automated install" > and than providing the preseed location. > > see me puzzled, > any hint is welcome! I have those lines in my preseed file to insure that no 'desktop' is installed: ### Package selection tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard -- John Doe
