Re: a couple of install questions
I have installed Debian (woody) a couple of times over this weekend. I have
downloaded the floppy disk images (6 in total) and it went without a problem.
As far as I know the woody installation doesn't give you the option of
selecting "simple" anymore, it just allows you to run tselect or something
like this. This choice for simple or not simple I think was given in the
Potato version.
Over my DSL a full Woody Debian installation (using floppy images) with X
takes an average of half an hour which I found reasonable.
On Monday 26 August 2002 4:18 pm, Your Name wrote:
> (newbie to debian)
> I have downloaded the iso image burned it and installed the basics and
> used my dsl to provide the rest.
> When choosing "simple" from the task installer i'm not sure if im
> given all the options. there is gnome, science mathe and "c" that's
> about it. kde is not available as are fonts to run gnome. the pre-
> rolled software configs seem to be missing "desktop environment"
> and "office". could i possible have a bad iso or a development version?
>
> Second. I managed to use dselect and get gnome running. the login
> manager woud'nt let me login as root and i cant reboot or shutdown
> only start with a user. i can change consoles though to shut down.
> please recommend a desktop environment login thing(where you choose
> between kde,gnome,etc)
>
> thanks for any suggestions though i will check my image disk and try a
> reinstall.
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