On Sat 29 Oct 2016 at 17:26:38 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 29 October 2016 15:30:51 Carl Fink wrote: > > On 10/29/2016 10:21 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 26 October 2016 18:24:04 Carl Fink wrote: > > >> Thanks. > > >> > > >> I actually remember seeing it now that you remind me. > > >> > > >> Define "desktop". I set up Xfce4. > > > > > > But did you do so DURING INSTALLATION? So the complete question, which > > > you have still not answered in its entirety, was: > > > "Did you install a desktop during the installation?" > > > > > > Desktop is as defined in tasksel during the installation. (Tasksel uses > > > the actual word "desktop") > > > > > > The "during", which you have continued to ignore, is important and could > > > be the crux of your problem. > > > > Quibble: not "ignore". Fail to understand the question. Functionally thea
What was there not to understand. To quote: > Did you install a desktop *during* the installation? The "during" is highlighted. It's an easy enough question to answer. How many mails was it before we got a definitive answer? > > same, intentionality different. > > > > Yes, during installation. Not that it will alter the OP's point of view: the functionality of installing Xfce from the installer is not the same as installing from a running system. > Right, so that is not the problem. I'm afraid I stand by my ignore - you > clearly do understand "during", so you were ignoring it!! ;-) > > Did you install the laptop stuff during installation? If not, try rerunning > tasksel (it is a command that is available and seems not to require root) and > making sure that you have got the laptop stuff as well as the desktop stuff. > I don't know what you do about the fact that you have not at this moment got > running wi-fi, which you did have last time you ran tasksel, but run it > anyway and see if it helps. Running tasksel will not repeat or replicate the d-i environment. He hadn't got running wi-fi because he had cocked something up. Maybe he has it now, -- Brian
