On Saturday 03 May 2014 10:40:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 02 mai 14, 22:13:02, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 02 May 2014 21:29:43 Brian wrote: > > > Choosing a DE *after* booting d-i is not possible and, as far as I can > > > remember, there has never been such an option. > > > > You and I clearly mean different things by "booting". I have done it > > frequently over the years in several different versions.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boot <quote> Verb boot (third-person singular simple present boots, present participle booting, simple past and past participle booted) (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, eg. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap. When arriving at the office, first thing I do is booting my machine. </quote> I feel happy to continue using boot in te meaning in which wiktionary uses it. > The menu that you see immediately after the BIOS finishes is presented > by syslinux, which is the bootloader used by the Debian images. At this > point the installer is technically not running. > > Depending on the menu entry used the installer is then loaded (booted) Loaded and booted are not synonyms. Lisi > with parameters like 'expert' or 'desktop=xfce' that determine what > options are presented *during* the install or what is meant by the > "Desktop Environment" entry presented later. > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.html.en > > As far as I remember (I haven't done an 'expert' install in a while), > during the install there is no easy[1][2] way to chose what desktop will > be installed as part of the "Desktop Environment" task. > > [1] it can probably be done by switching to a console or so > [2] I seem to recall a "Select individual packages" check-box, but this > was probably the installer for sarge and it would be a stretch to call > that "easy" :) > > Kind regards, > Andrei -- 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/201405031108.29035.lisi.re...@gmail.com
