Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?
Erratum - I omitted something.
On Friday 07 March 2014 08:19:06 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2014 01:16:05 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
> > 2: Tell them how to use the network install CD to install Debian
> > sans GUI.
Why? Why not install *with* GUI? If you (briefly) venture into the
advanced option at install time, you can choose xfce as desktop.
Thereafter use normal text-based install and accept defaults. :-)
> One problem that they may hit is network card during installation
> not being recognised. This is easily remedied, but there are also
> install CDs with the drivers. I can never remember where these are
> and they are difficult to find, but hopefully someone will chime
> in.
>
> > 3: Tell them to apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
See above. Though I don't use xfce myself, so I don't know whether
they would still need to install xfce4-goodies.
> > 4: Tell them how to make Xfce be what runs when they issue the
> > startx command.
>
> Why complicate things for them? Why not have it boot into the GUI?
If they install with xfce from the beginning, this would be the
default.
Lisi
> > 5: Tell them how to make iceweasel play youtube videos (I think
> > today I saw someone on this list say to go to youtube.com/html5 :
> > Is that a good solution in general?)
>
> There will still be things that cannot play on YouTube and sites
> that are not (yet?) HTML5.
>
> > 6: Are you guys cool with my friends, who would all be raw
> > newbies, joining this list?
>
> I am, but then I am by way of being a perpetual newbie myself. ;-).
> I can't speak for the others. Warn them to reseqarch first and
> accept the somewhat rough "justice" sometimes meeted out.
>
> Useful URLs
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-getting.en.html
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual
>
> http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
>
> Lisi
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