Short version: From the screen that lets the user select specific system components to install, eg. XFCE, print server, SSH server, when I tabbed to the selection "go back" with the intention of getting the main menu, what happened instead was the installer began downloading "1173 packages". The only way I could figure to stop was to M-C-del, producing a SIGTERM which rebooted.
Expanded version: 1] As a follow-up to a comment I made last week about saving downloaded components for future installs (saving bandwidth/time), I've been experimenting with how a user could re-use components using the ash shell that's available with the net installer. 2] The first set of downloads, for the installer's own components, seem to be deleted immediately upon their install. I was not able to retrieve them for re-use from ash. FAILURE 3] The second set of downloads, for the linux base system, may have been left on the target, but in advance of that download step, the debian install commands with which I am familiar were not available. I had archived deb files available to the installer and to the target, but got stuck at trying to perform something like 'apt-get update' to let the installer know they were there. FAILURE 4] The third set of downloads, for the additional system components, should have been the easy lift. What I did was deselect the options for a desktop and for a print server, expecting the system to want to download ~273 files, as it did on prior tests. At that point, I tried doing what I had no problem doing for the prior two stages - return to the main install menu, and open up a shell. I tabbed to 'go back', pressed 'enter', but the installer began downloading packages instead of presenting the main menu, and indicated that it would download 1173 packages instead of 273. 4.1] Was it a case of 'fat-fingerng'? I don't think so, but it's asking a lot to attempt to re-create this because with slow bandwidth, each install attempt takes a long time to get to this stage. Today's connection was especially slow. This has been the only time and point in the install process that I've had a problem returning to the main menu, so it might have been an errant keystroke, but I think I was being careful. 4.2] It would be nice to have had a less destructive method of aborting the download than to reboot. -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
