Please incorporate a link to the dselect tutorial in the installation document (http://www.debian.org/2.0/install.html).
Greetings, Ray Path: news.wi.leidenuniv.nl!highway!surfnet.nl!news.belnet.be !news-raspail.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net !portc01.blue.aol.com!portc02.blue.aol.com!pitt.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu !honeysuckle.srv.cs.cmu.edu!news.das.harvard.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu !mufasa.harvard.edu!cfanews.harvard.edu!not-for-mail From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Debian dselect question Date: 10 Sep 98 22:39:32 GMT Organization: Harvard University Lines: 58 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NNTP-Posting-Host: cfanews.harvard.edu X-Trace: mufasa.harvard.edu 905467188 22847 131.142.10.44 (10 Sep 1998 22:39:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Sep 1998 22:39:48 GMT User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.34 (i586)) Xref: news.wi.leidenuniv.nl comp.os.linux.setup:198245 comp.os.linux.misc:280839 In comp.os.linux.misc Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :> It gives me a confusingly worded option which ends in "do you want to :> skip this step?" and selecting: :> Yes: takes me right to dselect :> No: takes me to a list of setup "profiles" such as web server, :> firewall, desktop system, etc... and that I can skip [S]elect when I :> eventually do dselect. : We know that it's poorly worded. Sorry for the confusion. A couple of earlier threads gave advice without which I never would've been able to get Debian 2.0 installed -- frankly I think they should be part of the general installation guide. The first provided an URL for the dselect tutorial: http://www.debian.org/2.0/dselect.beginner.html . It made sense of the interface in a way that the helps screens couldn't. The second was from a thread with subject "Debian 2 Install script?": In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Bonser) wrote: The KEY for a newbie is the first time through dselect only set two things, if you do not want emacs, delete it. Also, if you want an emailer other than smail, select it and when thrown into conflict resolution, make sure smail is marked for removal. Now, install the stuff that is preselected for you. You will probably have three or four things that do not install the first time if you are on FTP because FTP will try to install them in the wrong order. Just select install again when you get back to the main menu and they should go the second time around. Now once you have gotten all that stuff installed go back and select the additional package you want and install them. This will keep you out of conflict resolution. Prior to trying this, I would always select too many things my first time through dselect and it would crash. Doing this first made it happier (-: :> First, what is this page of "profiles" called? : The "profiles" are just an part of the installation, you'll never see them : again later. You can't invoke it again. That's really too bad, b/c I got to that point of the installation several times before being able to get past it with a stable system. To be able to start again from there would've saved a lot of trouble repeating steps. (And knowing it's *not* invokable separately -- it's not even mentioned in the install guide, btw -- would have saved the search to find out how to do it). jg p.s. don't let the install headaches deter you, Debian is a wonderful distrib. -- "don't listen when you're told about the best days in your life Spirit of a useless old expression, it means passing time until you die." the West /\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/ -- John Girash -- girash @ cfa.harvard.edu - http://skyron.harvard.edu/ --
