Re: install trouble: stuck at "select tasks"
Lawrence H. Robins wrote:
> I am (trying to be) a new Debian user. I have the 2.2r0 CD set
> and got through most of the installation without a problem, but
> near the end of the install, after installing the base system,
> booting it, creating a root account and a user account, I
> accidentally exited the "select tasks" program before making most
> of the selections that I wanted, and now I can't figure out how
> to restart this program.
Run "tasksel".
> >From the install manual, section 7.24 "Select and Install Profiles":
> >The system will now ask you if you want to use the pre-rolled
> >software configurations offered by Debian. This is the purpose of
> >the dselect program, described below. But this can be a long task
> >with around 3950 packages available in Debian!
> >So you have the ability to choose tasks or profiles instead. A task
> >is a work you will do with the machine such as "Perl programming" or
> >"HTML authoring" or "Chinese word processing". You can choose several
> >tasks.
> >......[paragraph skipped]
> >Soon, you will enter into dselect. If you selected tasks or profiles,
> >remember to skip the "Select" step of dselect, since the selections
> >have already been made.
This documentation seems thoroughly out of date, debian 2.1-era.
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see shy jo
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