On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:25:44 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote: > > > > ... > > I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection. > > ... > > Then I did the following: > > > > apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies > > apt-get install synaptic > > apt-get install iceweasel > > ... > > I realize that this is too late for this install, but maybe it will > help you next time. Also, maybe it will help someone else. Try > this. When you get the initial boot screen from the Debian > installer, press F1 for help, then at the boot prompt type: > > expert desktop=xfce > > and press Enter. Do *not* uncheck the desktop selection in the > tasksel menu during installation. The installer will install the > xfce desktop. > > There's more than one way to do this, but this may be the quickest > way. You can also add whatever other Debian installer options, kernel > boot parameters, or environment variable values that you want to use > on this line. Thanks Stephen! I'll recommend this to people. If and when I change my style of booting to CLI and then typing startx, this is the way I'll do it myself. I should probably explain my propensity to install a base system, get it running, and then use the package manager to add the rest. It comes from long years of usage of Red Hat, Caldera, Mandrake/Mandriva, and Ubuntu. On those distros, there was the very real possibility that installation would stall or produce a nonbootable system. So what I always do is install a non-X system with little but ssh server added to the defaults, get that installed, and then, from a nice, stable OS, use the package manager for the rest. This level of paranoia might not be necessary with Debian, but I don't yet completely trust its installation procedure. Relatedly, this past experience of hanging installations is one reason I greatly prefer CLI or nCurses installations to GUI ones. CLI installs are more likely to complete, and are MUCH more likely to install on a resource starved machine. I recently installed Debian, via the network install, on a machine with 128MB of RAM. No other complete Linux that I tried would go that low. Thanks, and I'll always keep F1 and then expert desktop=xfce in mind. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140326204606.7e29c305@mydesk
