Bug#601557: installation-reports: Unable to install desktop-environment

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Raman Pandarinathan, le Wed 27 Oct 2010 15:13:29 +0530, a écrit :
> Downloaded amd64 first CD iso image.

I guess you haven't downloaded the other CD iso images.

> a.The tasksel doesn't list desktop-environment. Only base system
> installed. Manually installed
> gnome-desktop-environment.

Did you setup a network mirror?  I did and desktop-environment was
proposed.  I guess just CD1 is not enough to install the desktop task.

> b.After installing gnome-desktop-environment, unable to change IP
> number of eth0 through any of the GUI application
> like network-tools or sytem->admin-network. Manually editing
> /etc/network/interfaces works though.

That needs more investigation.

Samuel