I tried it on a MacPro G5 (64-bit) with the "netinst" CD. At the
"boot:" prompt I entered "install desktop=xfce", then answered the
usual questions and watched it happily install xfce.
So that works.
I have an xfce-CD1 CD that I intend to try with "install
desktop=gnome" and see which d
OK,
Sounds great!
I'll give it a try on a couple of old Macs over the weekend.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Mar 7, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:49:54AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
# cat /proc/cmdline # in the F2 console during the installation
ro ramdisk_size=10
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:49:54AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
># cat /proc/cmdline # in the F2 console during the installation
>ro ramdisk_size=10240 desktop=kde --
>
>It installed kde as expected.
>
>I'm not sure what the "--" is all about. It was not present when I
>installed with the "
On Mar 3, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 01:46:06PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Gah. Looking further, at the moment I don't see how (if at all) the
powerpc boot stuff passes through any of the kernel boot option
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 01:46:06PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>
>>Gah. Looking further, at the moment I don't see how (if at all) the
>>powerpc boot stuff passes through any of the kernel boot options to
>>specify a default task. Rick, what happens
On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:58:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:52:50PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:56:10AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
The following desktop environments are available:
On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Gah. Looking further, at the moment I don't see how (if at all) the
powerpc boot stuff passes through any of the kernel boot options to
specify a default task. Rick, what happens if you try with kde CD#1
right now? Does it actually do KDE, or d
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:58:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:52:50PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:56:10AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>>The following desktop environments are available:
>>>gnome, kde, xfce and lxde. The default
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:52:50PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:56:10AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>
>>The following desktop environments are available:
>>gnome, kde, xfce and lxde. The default is gnome.
>>If you prefer a different one, append
>>"des
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:56:10AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>
>>To be honest, it may be too late for Wheezy, but I guess it depends on
>>how big the changes would be.
>
>I'm quite impressed with the effort you-all have put in on isolinux
>and grub for x86.
>
>The yaboot bootloader for PowerPC doe
On Feb 26, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Basically, we put a lot of effort in for the isolinux-based x86 boot
menus to give the options here. I've added code to debian-cd to
convert those same menus into grub format for UEFI x86 booting. AFAIK
none of the other arches have that suppor
On Feb 27, 2013, at 3:25 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
On 27/02/13 06:04, Rick Thomas wrote:
Is it as simple as appending something like "desktop=xfce" to the
boot
command line?
Actually yes, that should work; the install media for GNU/Hurd and
kFreeBSD are doing exactly this.
So I trie
Hi,
On 27/02/13 06:04, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Is it as simple as appending something like "desktop=xfce" to the boot
> command line?
Actually yes, that should work; the install media for GNU/Hurd and
kFreeBSD are doing exactly this.
Regards,
--
Steven Chamberlain
ste...@pyro.eu.org
--
To UNSU
Is it as simple as appending something like "desktop=xfce" to the boot
command line?
If so, maybe it could be as simple as adding a couple of sentences to
the text in /install/boot.msg ...
I'll see if that works. If it does, I'll suggest some wording for the
message.
On Feb 26, 2013,
Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>With the amd64 netinst CD I have found a spot in the maze of helpful
>"expert" options offered when the CD first boots that lets me choose
>which Desktop Environment will be installed later on by tasksel. This
>is really nice because it means I don't have to have a sepa
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