On Monday 13 July 2015 13:30:40 Richard Owlett wrote:
Jonathan Levine wrote:
On 7/11/15, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
You might want to try a live-cd {https://www.debian.org/CD/live/}.
The netinst cd is a very minimal system. I can see it "running"
when a "full" system might not. When I was looking for a distro I
purchased live-cd's
[https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/] to determine compatibility
with my hardware. [I was on dial-up so downloading was not
feasible ;]
Okay, I'll keep it in mind, and perhaps give it a try if nobody can
shed any light on the current install. The only reason I'm reluctant
is that I'm on a satellite ISP - and a small and expensive traffic cap -
so sucking down full install CDs would presumably chew up a lot of
my allocation. That's why I chose the small CD network install - I
figured it'd hold the download down to just what was needed.
Complete set all of 13 Jessie DVD's are available from my
preferred vendor for ~$35(US), Install over dial-up being
completely impractical. I've moved to a 3G/LTE ISP, choosing a
1GB/mo plan, so I will continue to purchase DVD sets.
I disagree with Richard on this, Jonathon. You took much the best approach.
There must be a solution which does not involve 13 DVDs! I have been using
Debian for over 11 years and in all that time I have never had to solve a
problem by deviating from the net-install, and only very rarely by
reinstalling.
Don't go playing around with 14 DVDs. Richard has special and idiosyncratic
needs and requirements.
I'll look back at your problem and see if I can suggest a different approach.
I had been leaving it to the experts (which I am not on Jessie).
Lisi