On Vi, 04 mar 11, 08:55:17, Lisi wrote: > <quote> You will do a standard installation, that is, you will install only > the minimum environment. </quote> As I understand it 'standard' in this context refers to packages up to (and including) standard priority. If you don't know what I'm talking about see 'apt-cache show exim4 | grep Priority'. > I have been given this instruction and am having problems interpretting it, > since The Debian site says (a propos of Sarge, but the course material was > written some years ago): > > <quote> In a default Debian 3.1 standard installation you will end up with > OpenSSH, Exim (depending on how you configured it) and the RPC portmapper > available as network services[4]. If you did not go through a standard > installation but selected an expert installation you can end up with no > active network services. </quote> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html > section 3.6 > > So the Debian site distinguishes between "standard" and "expert". But our > instructions continue: 'expert' install is the one where you set 'priority=expert' on booting. IIRC in sarge times you got a prompt at boot. If you pressed Enter it would do a 'priority=normal' install and if you wrote 'expert' it would do the 'priority=expert' install (with a lot more options). That manual would have better used 'normal' install, but now it's considered obsolete and no one will update it. > <quote> When you start the installation from the selected media, choose the > expert mode and follow the steps until the end of the process. </quote> > > In other words, standard and expert are the same thing. Help!!! In the context of going through the whole install (from boot to running the system) standard means 'priority=normal' (not so many questions) and 'expert' is the one where you get a lot more choices and can tweak all sorts of things *including* the package selection. HTH, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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