On 03/20/2017 09:05 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 21 March 2017 00:38:36 Richard Owlett wrote:With the installer from DVD 1 of 13 the first option in taskel is for choosing to have a desktop - the default is yes.Thanks, Richard! This is as I expected - the default is to have a desktop. I must find a machine on which I can safely do some net install test installs. I should be getting one next month. But again, the default certainly used to be to have a desktop. I sometimes don't want oen - but land up with one if I go to sleep. :-/ Lisi
It will take longer to do the test installs than I originally estimated. To gather some related data I find interesting will take at least 6 unique installs. That means tweaking 6 preseed.cfg files in order to:
a. be doing something else while the machine chugs along. b. be able to document exactly what was done.Also I picked up a new toy yesterday, a 240 GB Portable SSD. That will allow me to use my dedicated WindowsXP Laptop as a server. I'll put the contents of DVD 1 on the SSD and run netinstall on my Linux hardware. Who knows how long it will take as I have no idea of how many "learning experiences" take place when running a server for the first time ;/