Thanks John for confirming how things are supposed to work, that helps because it narrows things down and I don't need to wonder what is the correct way. In MIPS it turns out choices 10 11 is the default. Problem averted/bypassed.
We're not going to solve it here, but its still weird. Entering 10 11 on x86 is the first thing I tried, and gnome and the rest were still installed. The text installer is weird, sometimes I enter number, Enter and am asked the same question again. Thanks Dan for the encouragement. Much appreciated too. Alan On 4/29/18, john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote: > On 4/30/2018 3:00 AM, Alan Tu wrote: >> Hi, I'm playing with Debian 9.4 stretch on other architectures via the >> QEMU emulator (eventually for security research.) I can't figure out >> how to handle the numerical software selection menu in the _text_ >> installer. >> >> I managed to install Debian x86 inside QEMU, using the newt installer. >> However, I'm having trouble getting the newt installer to run on >> emulated MIPS (I only see a Go Back button at language selection, >> that's a separate problem.) >> >> I can get the text installer to launch via passing >> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text as a kernel parameter, and right now my objective >> is to get Debian installed inside emulated MIPS via the text >> installer. >> >> The challenge is the Software Selection menu, with items 1-11 with >> items like desktop environments, print server and SSH server. >> >> I played with this for several hours yesterday on the x86 installer, >> and I could not figure this out. I tried entering numbers separated by >> a space at the prompt, entering ? at this prompt. I tried passing >> tasks?="ssh-server, standard" >> tasksel:tasksel/first?="ssh-server, standard" >> with or without a space after the comma. I looked at preseed files to >> get the right variables. >> >> I read all about boot parameters. No matter what I did, desktop and >> print-server were installed on x86. >> >> I used the newt installer to get x86 Debian installed. But I'm having >> trouble with newt installer on MIPS right now. >> >> At the Software Selection menu in the text installer, with typical >> numerical options 1-11, how do I make the selection of ssh-server and >> standard? >> >> Thanks in advance. I beat my head on this problem for several hours >> yesterday, and I'd appreciate a helpful hint. >> > > You simply input eatch desired numbers seperated by spaces: > > 10 11 > > will only install package number 10 and 11 > > -- > John Doe > >
