John Pearson wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 04:23:50PM -0500, w trillich wrote > > but what i was referring to was the console-happy curses-based gizmo > > that ran only on the FIRST BOOT after installing bare-bones kernel > > stuff from cd. blue screen, white selector bars, and TAB to rotate > > among the choices. > > > > I'm afraid you won't see tha unless you re-install - it's part of the > dinstall script that is deleted after installation. All it really does > is > # dpkg --set-selections < profile.whatever > and you can get the actual package lists it uses from the boot-floppies > package (I think).
thought it was something like that. > IMO, they are a mixed blessing - they mean that a new user can > skip dselect, which is the most harrowing step for most new > users, but they also mean that users end up with (e.g.) NIS > installed when they have no idea what it's for or whether they > need to worry about the error messages it produces. or about the flames they get when asking if they need such a beast.. :) thanks for the info!
