Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages
On Sat 11 May 2013 at 13:46:23 +0100, John Dilley wrote:
> I'm installing Debian Wheezy as a paravirtualised guest onto
> XenServer, with a preseed file (below) - despite only asking for
> standard system utilities in tasksel, I seem to be getting a full
> desktop environment installed.
>
> The preseed file was based on the one I use for Squeeze, which works
> fine - is there anything I'm obviously doing wrong?
>
> When I run the installer manually and deselect the desktop task in
> tasksel (which is selected by default), then it installs only the
> essentials. Do I need to add something in the preseed file to tell
> tasksel to deselect the desktop task?
[Snip]
> d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server psmisc ntpdate
It seems you need a bit more than this line.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en
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