Hi Folks After I had gotten my new laptop all running nicely, I realised that I'd forgotten to encrypt the partitions as I'd intended :( So, I started over.
For some reason, the installer (Lenny netinst) is now having problems scanning the mirrors. Those entered manually and those from the list all fail - but I'm not even seeing network traffic on the switch port when it says it's doing the scans. The network *is* configured OK. Allowed the machine to finish with just the standard installation (no talking to mirrors.) Tested network connectivity after boot by doing an apt-get update, no issues. My problem is this: I want to be able to run tasksel so that I can get all those 100s of packages installed en-masse. If I run tasksel alone, it just gives me the standard option, not all the desktop, laptop, lamp, etc., that I want. Tried to do a repair installation to see if I was able to do this but - after having to reformat the root partition and re-installing base - I was back to the no talking to mirrors problem. Debian installation guide not forthcoming. So, how do I get the nice tasksel menu (with all the options) that I get when booted from netinst? (I won't even ask why the mirrors won't work when they did 5 days ago when I did the original install.) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitter: @smiffy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
