On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:34, krishnakant Mane wrote:
hello rony, jtd mehul and all other friends. I tried to install debian from 3.1 rc 2. the problem is that I want to select 2.6 kernel and also want to get the menu for selecting the packages I want to install. the main problem is that I can either select the kernel or with debconf-priority=medium, get the menu. but I want to do both the things. I also want to make choices for packages to be installed and also have 2.6 kernel install which does not happen by default.
At boot prompt "expert26" will allow u to do almost everything manually which is a pain "linux26" will install linux-2.6.8-1-i386-3. Once base installation is complete u can run tasksel and select broad categories of apps or select manual package selection to select packages manually. I do a base install then apt-get remove netatalk xxx yyy zzz which removes netatalk xxx yyy zzz packages. Then apt-get install a b c which installs a b and c. Most of the time it's just cloning some installation which imeans using cp.
can some one give me the proper conbination of the command line parameters to be passed? I have started the installer more than 15 times but could not figure it out. by the way if at all I think of buying the debian cds, should I buy all the 14 cd set? or else the first 4 will suit the need? I want to make one server setup and one work station setup with modest packages like office and related tools, cd writing, firefox evolution etc.
Select desktop this will install all the regular desktop stuff. Then apt-get install k3b dvd+rw-tools cdrdao dvdrip <other packages u need> download libdvdcss2 debs and save them someplace. dpkg -i /someplace/libdvdcss2*
Buy all 14. Particularly if u are planning a customised knoppix.