Bug#692054: installation-report: xfce CD installs gnome

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Ben wrote:
>On 02/11/12 04:47 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have tested the xfce-CD1 on a virtualbox (but for i386, not amd64 as the 
>> submitter), and it correctly installed xfce in both cases: when installing 
>> only from CD without network mirror, and when installing with mirror.
>> So, could this be different for i386 and amd64?
>
>More likely some preseed to select xfce is missing because unetbootin
>mangles the boot parameters.

That's my suspicion too. Without the right desktop task specified on
the boot command line we'll probably fall back to Gnome.

We've told and told people about hybrid images, but I guess the
message still isn't getting out there. :-(

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