On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 04:19:33PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: > Installer before reboot: > The installer did not detect my network card. I have an old ISA > Plug-n-Play NE2000 compatible. When I selected "ne" from the driver > list, it was detected immediately without requiring any IO/IRQ settings. > > I can understand if 'discover' simply doesn't support ISA any more - > it's been legacy for too long already. However, "ne" was not added > to /etc/modules, so on reboot I was unable to access the LAN until I > loaded the module and /etc/init.d/networking restart.
This /might/ be due to a bug in current testing discover-data package. > I'll explain what I did, and what happened. I want KDE installed, but > not GNOME. I selected 'Desktop environment', and then pressed cursor > keys until I got 'More Info' selected - on seeing that it will install > GNOME, I wanted to remove my selection of 'Desktop environment', but I > managed to press LEFT, and then SPACE. > > Rather than deselecting 'Desktop Environment' this pressed 'Finish' so > apt-get then immediately went to download 400MB of packages for X11, KDE > and GNOME. I pressed CTRL-C to stop it, and it gracefully exited and > returned me to the previous menu, where I selected only 'X Window > system' and then 'Finish'. > > Unfortunately it had remembered the previous selection, and still wanted > to download KDE/GNOME/X11 :( > > In fact, even after getting to the base-config menu, and pressing Cancel > to completely restart base-config, it still remembered all the GNOME/KDE > stuff I had now decided NOT to install. Yeah, I noticed this, too. It seems to be a rather fundamental problem though, Joey Hess pointed me to #54233 (sic). Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
