Bug#249344: Debian Installation Report

2004-05-18 Thread Mark Haidar (Fyren)
Joshua Kwan wrote: For the information of whoever's investigating this bug, this is probably because Mark chose the desktop environment task, which ropes in x-window-system (including xdm) and a bunch of GNOME/KDE packages (including gdm, or so I figure.) Maybe tasksel should be tweaked to only ins

Bug#249344: Debian Installation Report

2004-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 May 2004 16:37, Joey Hess wrote: > Do you know why it selects xdm? Must be a dependency of something? Hmmm. I looks like it is the 'basic-desktop' task. This installs the x-window-system package which depends on xdm. So this would happen to users who select _both_ the 'basic-desktop

Bug#249344: Debian Installation Report

2004-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > This question is asked if you select the "desktop task" in tasksel. > This installs both xdm and gdm (but for some strange reason not kdm) and the > user is asked which desktop manager he/she wants to use. Do you know why it selects xdm? Must be a dependency of something? --

Bug#249344: Debian Installation Report

2004-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 16 May 2004 22:30, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Does anyone know when this is being asked? I cannot find xdm > mentioned in tasksel at all. Is this the X configuration program > maybe? This question is asked if you select the "desktop task" in tasksel. This installs both xdm and gdm (but

Bug#249344: Debian Installation Report

2004-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Mark Haidar (Fyren) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-16 16:09]: > > The install went very smoothly in general. Definitely better than the > > last time I installed Debian in 2001. The only question I was asked > > that I didn't feel was accompanied by adequate informatio

Bug#249344: Debian Installation Report

2004-05-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Haidar (Fyren) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-16 16:09]: > The install went very smoothly in general. Definitely better than the > last time I installed Debian in 2001. The only question I was asked > that I didn't feel was accompanied by adequate information was whether > to install xdm

Bug#249344: Debian Installation Report

2004-05-16 Thread Mark Haidar (Fyren)
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Used http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040515/sarge-i386-netinst.iso at around midnight EST May 16th uname -a: Linux bob 2.6.5-1-386 #2 Fri Apr 30 20:13:30 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 1:00 AM EST May 16th Method: