Re: re-rebooting during installation
If you get a private reply that answers this, please post it; I've seen
the question here before without having seen the answer, and I'd like to
know too. Thanks.
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, G. Crimp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Question first, details follow for those that want them.
>
> Question: How can I get Deb to present me with the profile selection screen
> that one gets during installation of Deb 2.0, after one has partitioned,
> initialized, configured the net and the base system and rebooted ? You
> know, where one decides if one wants to create an Admin box, stand alone
> box, home box, development box, etc.
>
> Details:
> I'm just having a go at installing 2.0 from an "official" CD image.
> Got through all the initial installation routine stuff, rebooted, root
> password etc, etc. Then I got to the part where you pick a profile. I went
> and had a look at custom, then wanted to go back and have a look at some of
> the other profiles. I hit cancel at the custom selection screen. It didn't
> take me back to where I could select another profile.
>
> I didn't want to go straight to dselect, so I rebooted. We are
> having a nation wide installfest in Canada next weekend. I'm doing my part
> and I want to know more about the various profiles so I can better help
> installees go home with an appropriate configuration. When I rebooted, I
> was sent directly to a login as if installation was complete. I guess it
> was complete, but I want to play more with the installation procedure and
> profile selection.
>
> If anyone can tell me what the mechanism is to restart the root
> password selection, user account creation, profile selection routine, it
> would be greatly appreciated. I don't really want to have to go back and
> redo the whole install thing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gerald
>
>
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