Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?
David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:45:40 +0100
[...]
> Quoting Robert Cymbala (cymbaLa@lafn.org):
[...]
> > Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose
> > these tasks:
> > [*] Dialup Dialup utilities
> > [*] Laptop A selection of tools for laptop users
> > [*] Newbie Help New user documentation
> > [*] Python Python script development environment
> > [*] Python Bundle Full distribution of Python
> > [*] Python Dev Full Python development environment
> > [*] Python Web Python web application development environm
> > [*] Sgml SGML and XML authoring and editing
> > [*] Sgml Dev SGML and XML development environment
[...]
> > After a reboot, I launched dselect and:
> > - [S]elect
> > - upon entering Select screen, pressed ENTER ("- All packages -")
> > - [I]nstall
> >
> > It said:
> > ... 65 newly installed; 89.8MB will be used ...
> >
> > I don't get it. Why does dselect "want" to install so much, whereas
> > the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the "Have Fun!"
> > message) did not? The main installation routine didn't install such
> > basic packages as ispell and finger, but somehow those two (and 63
> > others) were in dselect's "queue" of packages to be installed.
>
> What do you mean by "operating-system install"? If you mean the
> part of the installation prior to the reboot, well you wouldn't
> expect that part to install much. 89.8MB, let's see, what's that
> in floppies, sixty? No, that part of the installation only includes
> the packages that are needed to install more packages, i.e. it's a
> classic bootstrap process.
Thank you for the feedback. It has prompted me to dig deeper into the
install documentation; in fact, I've been able to answer my own
question upon further reading!
My CD set has (where "M:" is CD-ROM in Windows Explorer):
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file:///M:/install/doc/ch-init-config.en.html#s-preselections
"7.24 Select and Install Profiles"
version 2.2.20.0.1, 30 November, 2000
That section says:
"So, you have the ability to choose tasks or profiles instead."
The latest install documentation version has:
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http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/ch-init-config.en.html#s-preselections
"7.29 Simple Package Selection -- The Task Installer "
version 2.2.21, 21 March, 2001
That newer section says:
"So, you have the ability to choose tasks instead."
Section 7.29 (version on-line) ends with a caveat:
"The second caveat is that some so-called ``standard'' packages are
not installed by default. Thus, some software, which we consider
basic to any Linux system, may not be installed.[6] In order to
install that software, simply run tasksel -s, without selecting any
packages, then select ``Finish''."
Footnote #6 reads:
http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/footnotes.en.html#6
"This is due to a bug in base-config which we have fixed for the
next release. We decided not to change this after Potato release,
since it was a rather large change, and too likely to cause
problems."
So, until next release, I need to do ``tasksel -s'' as the final step
of what I called "operating-system install" (better to have said,
"Debian install"). It turns out that I noticed the bug in practice,
and sure enough the latest install documentation addresses it and what
to do about it.
Thank you,
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