Hello, I am (trying to be) a new Debian user. I have the 2.2r0 CD set and got through most of the installation without a problem, but near the end of the install, after installing the base system, booting it, creating a root account and a user account, I accidentally exited the "select tasks" program before making most of the selections that I wanted, and now I can't figure out how to restart this program. The program that I want can't be dselect by itself (right?), because dselect knows about the 3950 or so different packages on my Debian CDs, but not about "tasks".
>From the install manual, section 7.24 "Select and Install Profiles": >The system will now ask you if you want to use the pre-rolled >software configurations offered by Debian. This is the purpose of >the dselect program, described below. But this can be a long task >with around 3950 packages available in Debian! >So you have the ability to choose tasks or profiles instead. A task >is a work you will do with the machine such as "Perl programming" or >"HTML authoring" or "Chinese word processing". You can choose several >tasks. >......[paragraph skipped] >Soon, you will enter into dselect. If you selected tasks or profiles, >remember to skip the "Select" step of dselect, since the selections >have already been made. Frustratingly, the manual doesn't explain how to get back to the task selection step, before running dselect, after a mistake like mine. Lawrence H. Robins 13138 Diamond Hill Dr. Germantown, MD 20874-5901 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daytime phone (M-F): 301-975-5263 evening phone: 301-540-4833
