Hi I installed Debian v2.0, and after the first re-boot I am asked for a password for root. Ok, no problem so far. But, I discovered an application which runs automatically after you have logged in for the first time called PKGSEL. This allows you to chose a basic initial installation. However, this program/script cleverly deletes itself. I did a reinstall, so I could back the file/s up before PKGSEL completed running, and deleted itself.
I thought this was an excellent way of making Debian easier to install. I have attempted to work through dselect, however my knowledge of dselect is minimal, and I found dselect fairly laborious to use. When you select a package, it advises about dependancies, and then you need to choose those, etc, etc. I guess I just don't know how to drive it very well, even though I have read the dselect.beginner.txt file. Anyway, does anyone know anything about pkgsel (which is a perl script). I would like to investigate further to make Debian easy to install for my friends, who I want to try Debian/GNU Linux. thanks Philip Jensen
