Joey Hess wrote:
Chris Lale wrote:
The install is in two halves.
No, etch has not had a two-stage install since early this year.
Sorry, you are right. The CD is removed and the system rebooted after
tasksel is finished and grub is installed.
I have begun a new install
Joey Hess wrote:
Chris Lale wrote:
Selecting 'Desktop environment' (in Etch Testing) causes tasksel to
hang. (There is a flashing cursor at the bottom left-hand corner of the
console.) If 'Desktop
environment' is selected from within the Etch beta-3
Debian-installer, the installation fails. I
Joey Hess wrote:
Chris Lale wrote:
4405 tty1 S+ 0:01 \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/tasksel
4496 tty1 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib/tasksel/info/desktop.preinst
4501 tty1 S+ 0:00 \_ apt-get -q -y -f install discover1
4503 tty1 S+ 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/apt/methods/cdrom
So it's hanging before
Joey Hess wrote:
Chris Lale wrote:
It is a netinst CD (100-150 MB)
I suspect you didn't have the CD in the drive when you were running
tasksel standalone. I've identified a case that can make it hang, if apt
wants something from the CD and it's not in the drive.
Yes, you
It does not seem possible to install a desktop system with a totally gui
interface using the beta-3 debian-installer. expertgui looks really
good, but tasksel 2.53 only has an option for 'Desktop environment'.
This may be broken
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386244), but,
Joey Hess wrote:
[ ... ]
synaptic is included in the desktop task. Certian installation methods
(notably, using the full-size CD and no additional mirror) won't include
synaptic since it doesn't fit on the CD. Most other installation methods
(DVDs or anything involving a mirror) will include
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.53
Severity: normal
Selecting 'Desktop environment' (in Etch Testing) causes tasksel to
hang. (There is a flashing cursor at the bottom left-hand corner of the
console.) If 'Desktop
environment' is selected from within the Etch beta-3
Debian-installer, the
the distro from scratch if necessary, but when
it hangs I have no access to a shell. Is there something that I should
monitor in another shell?
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packages from the mirror. I
suspect this was because
it had not asked me for my ISP's nameservers.
Re-running the install worked fine with manual network configuration ie
supplying an IP for the box
(it suggested mask and gateway addresses correctly) and nameserver IPs.
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Thanks Colin.
Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:10:00PM +, Chris Lale wrote:
I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th May 2002
section 6.4) that partitions greater than about 6Gb should be avoided.
Does anyone know if this true? If so, why?
They're a bit
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