On 03/21/2017 05:30 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
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. :-/ LisiIt 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.
Actually it took 9 installs due to "educational" failures :}
The results of the 6 installs I intended to run:
[the only variable being which DE related boxes checked]
[space used reported by gparted]
1. None
CLI installed taking ~.92 GB
2. Only top entry checked (asking for unspecified desktop)
Gnome installed taking ~3.59 GB
3. Top entry *and* Gnome checked
Gnome installed taking ~3.59 GB
4. Top entry *and* MATE checked
MATE installed taking ~2.65 GB
5. Gnome only checked
Gnome installed taking ~3.59 GB
6. MATE only checked
MATE installed taking ~2.65 GB
Tests 1-6 were run were run from a flash drive copy of DVD1.
My "educational" failure was in attempting to create a preseed.cfg file
so the tests would require minimal hands on attention. I wanted the
tasksel screen to appear. I did not succeed. Instead the installer went
on its merry way installing Gnome in ~3.67 (not the ~3.59 GB of other runs).
Two additional installs were run to check an anomaly in the Gnome installs. To minimize typing during the tests, I had chosen to allow root to login and did not specify any other user.
MATE had no problem with this. Gnome refused to allow "root" be specified as a login ID.I did 2 test installs from the original DVD, one with and one without specifying a login other than "root". In neither case could I login as "root" in-spite of having explicitly specified during install that login as root was permitted.
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 ;/
It will take a while to get to that test.