On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 12:30:52PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> netinst is cli only
... what? NO!
> try
>
> sudo tasksel
>
> and choose desktop options. xfce is listed
The netinst image contains the same installer as the full DVD-1 image
does.
The task selection menu that you get at the end of an installation
is the same, whether you use netinst or DVD-1. It makes no difference.
You can still install a Desktop Environment, or not, as you choose.
This may be User Error (as I am capable of making), but I did not notice the usual offer to use Network Mirrors to provide Graphical Environments.
This bugged me, so I blew away a separate Bullseye Minimal vm, so I could try that Testing version of netinst again.
I *did* make a User error. I somehow failed to get packages from the Network the first try. Now, I am happily installing Bookworm on a second, Virtual Machine. I am refreshing my memory of what lxde will look like.
Careful what options you choose.
Kenneth Parker