Re: help with installation?

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

kaye n wrote:
...
>  Under this message, instead of showing tick boxes of the different desktop
> environments to choose from, along with web server, print server, SSH
> server, standart system utilities, there was only one tick box, the one for
> standard system utilities, that's it, just one.  Is that normal?

  doesn't sound like it to me from what i remember from
the last netinst i did.

  that doesn't matter though.  you have a working shell 
prompt at that point you can su - to root and run your
favorite apt/apt-get utilities to get whatever else you'd
like.

  if you want to get tasksel (task selection) and then 
go from there.


> Before this window though, there was an internet connection setup.
> I had to manually enter ESSID, which I assume is the same as ESSID, and the
> password.  I double checked and triple checked the eessid and the password,
> but it would not connect.

  perhaps you need specific hardware drivers for your
setup.  these are not included by default.


> Despite being a GNU/Linux user for years, it seems I am still not educated
> enough to do this kind of installation, but I would like to learn.
>
> What I want to do is finish the initial installation without any desktop
> environments, which probably means I would log in to a command prompt. I
> guess then I would install icewm via command?

  i would tick the box for the utilties as most of them
are useful for a longer time linux/unix type person and
if you find out later you don't want them you can always
remove them.

  and yes, on the icewm, i've not ever used it.  not sure
if it will bring in a session manager for you or not.

  almost all of your questions so far would be covered by
the installation instructions.


  songbird