Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 03 May 2014 10:40:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 02 mai 14, 22:13:02, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 02 May 2014 21:29:43 Brian wrote:
> > > Choosing a DE *after* booting d-i is not possible and, as far as I can
> > > remember, there has never been such an option.
> >
> > You and I clearly mean different things by "booting".  I have done it
> > frequently over the years in several different versions.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boot
<quote>
Verb

boot (third-person singular simple present boots, present participle booting, 
simple past and past participle booted)

    (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, eg. a computer, by invoking 
its boot process or bootstrap.

        When arriving at the office, first thing I do is booting my machine.
</quote>

I feel happy to continue using boot in te meaning in which wiktionary uses it.


> The menu that you see immediately after the BIOS finishes is presented
> by syslinux, which is the bootloader used by the Debian images. At this
> point the installer is technically not running.
>
> Depending on the menu entry used the installer is then loaded (booted)

Loaded and booted are not synonyms.

Lisi
> with parameters like 'expert' or 'desktop=xfce' that determine what
> options are presented *during* the install or what is meant by the
> "Desktop Environment" entry presented later.
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.html.en
>
> As far as I remember (I haven't done an 'expert' install in a while),
> during the install there is no easy[1][2] way to chose what desktop will
> be installed as part of the "Desktop Environment" task.
>
> [1] it can probably be done by switching to a console or so
> [2] I seem to recall a "Select individual packages" check-box, but this
> was probably the installer for sarge and it would be a stretch to call
> that "easy" :)
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei