On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 08:48, dman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:25:01PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > | > | > You can try installing a base potato system, then dist-upgrade to > | > woody. This has worked for me on several systems. snip > | BTW, to the original poster: Don't bother with DSELECT. Install the base > | system, and then once you get it working, use a decent tool like KPackage in > | KDE for installing more packages. Oh, or aptitude seems nice too. > > Slight problem there. If you stop after the base system, how do you > run KPackage? :-). First he'll have to apt-get install X, KDE, and > KPackage, and get X working. Personally I just use 'apt-get' directly > (and 'apt-cache' and 'dpkg' as suits the task). If you like, though, > go ahead and use one of the many console or X front ends. > > -D snip Another option available from a base install is 'tasksel'. Doesn't allow fine tuning but will install a x-window system , various servers, devel enviroment, and some other choices. -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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