[olug] Debian Install

[Mike McNally]

On Wed 20 Dec 2000, Nathan Brown wrote:

> Im' not sure what the simple install is .... 


If you select adv install you will be dumped straight into the dselect
menus and you immediately begin selecting stuff you don't need and creating
dependancy problems that removes stuff you can't do without.  Unless of
course you actually are an expert, which I am not.  If when beginning the 
install you selected the simple install it asks you to select a basic
type of system you'll be running.  Such as network router, desktop dialup,
graphics/sound desktop or something like that and then there is some 
adjustability of the packages to be included in the type install you 
choose.  After this type sys specific selection you are then ushered to 
the dselect individual package selection process.  That's what the simple 
install is.



> What I have actually
> accomplished is 

...quite likely, what I discribed in the first sentence above.

> to get a very very marginal Debian on my system ... no
> man pages no help pages other things are missing.  Lots of other things
> ..... I tried to get more but cannot get dselect or apt to go and
> actually get on the debian site.  I would like to knwo the debian IP #
> maybe i'm just not doin the DNS right .... I can ping Other IP #'s so i
> know my system is at least partially working ...
 

I'd reinstalled again, instead of trying to patch up a poorly executed
install.  But I'm just a dummy, and rule #1 in the dummies hand book (I
wrote the book, by the way) is never do anything the hardway.  Goodluck. :)

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Mike McNally		mmcnally3 at prodigy.net

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