On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Brian Potkin <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri 23 Nov 2012 at 20:05:23 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > > > Yes. You are correct. As old habit, I used unetbootin to prepare bootable > > usb pen drive. Any how as per user manual, cp and sync helped. > > But I would like to know what to do, when there is no existing linux > > installation in a machine? > > You read the CD FAQ and the Installation Guide. It is one of the first > things people should do. In neither will you find any advice on how to > write a Debian ISO to a USB stick under, say, Windows. So then you fall > back to something you have used before or you do a search. You might > find something helpful like this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/11/msg00049.html > > > I think machine needs more time to get connected with wifi if it is in > > more distance from router. When I placed my laptop near router it got > > connected easily. Hence configuration parameter of time to wait for wifi > > get configured should be left to user. I think at present after a min , > it > > restarts the question process. This does not solve problem. If > continuously > > may be for 2 or 3 mins adapter tries, then connection occurs. > > I think the association timeout is determined by wpa_supplicant and not > anything D-I might do. As far as I know it is not configurable from > within the supplicant. > > My experience is that if association and authentication do not take > place within a short time (20 seconds?) it will not happen over a longer > time. Switching my AP off and on is an occasional thing I have to. The > wireless adapter is also a factor (I avoid using the one internal to my > laptop), as are hidden ESSIDs. Etc, etc. > > Anyway, you are able to use WiFi to install Debian, so it is not all bad > news. :) > > > As I said earlier, I am using wheezy-kde-amd version in both b-3 and b-4. > > With task selection of debian desktop, ssh server,laptop and last option, > > it installed only GNOME not KDE. Any help in this regard welcome. > > I'm of little use here. Press TAB when the splash screen comes up. KDE > should be mentioned on the kernel booting line. > Thanks. Regarding third point, when the cd boots, I get directly options menu containg 3 options for graphical, text, rescue modes. I dont get any flash screen. Secondly, I want to say by leaving debian desktop option in software selection and in command line I could run task-kde-desktop for getting kde. But I think problem is even in kde cd, debian desktop option software selection points to task-debian-desktop which leads to gnome. Either debian desktop option in kde should point to task-kde-desktop or separate option of kde desktop should replace debian desktopn. I think this is a bug in kde cds. -- L V Gandhi
