Debain Installation (was RE: topics for next meeting)

[Bob Ham <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Paul Sims wrote:

> As for installing Debian in a hurry - is this even possible, (at least, 
> without a Priest of the Black Art of dselect present) unless in the guise 
> of Corel ; )

I personally simply select the major selections at the start, eg
Development Workstation, Network Server, etc, and then completely skip
the package selection in dselect.  If a package isn't installed that you
need (like telnetd for Dev Station :/ ) you can just use dpkg to install
it.

I stick clear of dselect anyway.  It's a little overwhelming and I
rarely install anything from the distribution (working mostly from .debs
from the unstable tree.)  For example, I reinstalled Debian "Slink &
1/2" about 2 weeks ago and already have glibc 2.1.3, gcc 2.95.2, XF86
3.3.6 and a number of updated packages yet dselect will be nowhere in
any .bash_history's :)

Bob

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