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Re: RC3 netinstall



Bill Day wrote:

>Just wondering whateveryones take ont his is for RC3.  I am doing an install 
>on wifes computer as she has givent he ok because she is tired of BSoD so I 
>dld rc3 and selected desktop after the main install and I have noticed that 
>this could be done much faster if only the installation gave you the option 
>of choosing only one desktop as well as both.  Instead of downloading all of 
>gnomea nd kde, maybe desktop should have a sub-scetion for installing only 
>one or the other to hurry the download/install process up a bit.
>
>  
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It would probably be a good thing, but in the meanwhile, I just bypass
tasksel and manually apt-get (aptitude, actually) all the X goodness
that I want. For example,

#aptitude install x-window-system kde

does a pretty good job.


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Kent West
Technology Support
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