Re: A long rant on Debian 9

[jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk>]

That looks interesting; it attemts to answer my deep problem about no X, 
xdm, xterm etc.

My problem nowis I do not know where/how to apply this.  I have not seen 
any mention of a kernel command line in the net install.  More please!

And thank you all who pointed me at the non-free installer files.  I will 
try that later today with luck


On Sun, 6 May 2018, Felix Miata wrote:

> John composed on 2018-05-06 21:51 (UTC+0100):
>
> > How do I get a working computer?  I can ssh in from elsewhere but that
> > is not what I need.  And I need wifi.
>
> My Debian installations are all net installs that include
>
> 	tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false
>
> on the kernel cmdline. I get nothing I don't need installed that way. Xorg and
> whatever else I need I get with apt* once booted normally.
>
> I don't use WiFi.
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