Andy Cater wrote: >On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41:42AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> I guess not everybody understands the reasons for Debian choosing a >> default desktop, so I'll explain/expand them here. >> >> 1. We have several types of installation media (netboot, netinst, DVD, >> BD) where we can happily install any desktop - they either contain >> *all* of the bits needed for any of the desktops, or *none*. The >> choice was made years ago to *not* ask users which desktop they >> prefer during the tasksel phase, to reduce the number of questions >> that new users would have to answer. Hence, we chose a >> default. Since that point, we've added options in the boot menus on >> these generic media (where possible, via isolinux or grub) to make >> it easier to make a desktop choice, but to the best of my knowledge >> most people just take the default option. We *could* revisit the >> tasksel design choice to not list all the desktops if people want - >> that's another discussion to have, maybe. >> > >I think it would be a good idea to have the netinst have an >additional option to select desktop easily including the option for >"command line only, no graphical desktop" as default.
We already have that option right now - in fact, you can deselect the "graphical desktop" task readily tasksel from any of the installation media and just get a simple command line system. Or are you specifically asking for such an option directly on the isolinux/grub installer boot screen? <snip> >Can DVD #1 install multiple desktops in and of itself? For machines that can >boot >from USB, I now routinely dd the image of DVD1 straight onto a 4GB stick and >go from there. Yes, it can. It should contain enough of the packages needed to be able to support all 4 of the recognised DEs. However, at current rates it won't take long for them to outgrow the 4GB of space available! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1vzq7c-0000rd...@mail.einval.com
