tasksel problems
Hi Folks
After I had gotten my new laptop all running nicely, I realised that I'd
forgotten to encrypt the partitions as I'd intended :( So, I started over.
For some reason, the installer (Lenny netinst) is now having problems
scanning the mirrors. Those entered manually and those from the list
all fail - but I'm not even seeing network traffic on the switch port
when it says it's doing the scans. The network *is* configured OK.
Allowed the machine to finish with just the standard installation (no
talking to mirrors.) Tested network connectivity after boot by doing an
apt-get update, no issues.
My problem is this: I want to be able to run tasksel so that I can get
all those 100s of packages installed en-masse. If I run tasksel alone,
it just gives me the standard option, not all the desktop, laptop, lamp,
etc., that I want.
Tried to do a repair installation to see if I was able to do this but -
after having to reformat the root partition and re-installing base - I
was back to the no talking to mirrors problem.
Debian installation guide not forthcoming.
So, how do I get the nice tasksel menu (with all the options) that I get
when booted from netinst? (I won't even ask why the mirrors won't work
when they did 5 days ago when I did the original install.)
Cheers
M
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