George Bonser wrote: I recall that there were task profiles ranging from 25M (base system) to over 500M (scientific workstation). There also was something like a "custom profile" in which you could select individual components. My guess is that emacs will be installed in all larger profiles, since most regard it as the second standard editor next to vi.
You do have the opportunity to check what is being installed in the various profiles - open a second terminal (Alt+F2) when you're at this stage of installing Hamm, and check the files in the "profiles" and "tasks" (I don't know the exact names, so they might be different) subdirectories in /root. Nevertheless, in dselect's install phase you are asked the question "do you wish to select the packages to be fetched" - your last chance to reduce the number of packages to download. Ruud. > > On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: > > > Are you writing about Debian 2? The "task profiles" is probably what can be > > seen while installing a SUSE Linux, but I haven't seen a profile selection > > option while installing Debian 2. How come? > > No, the task profiles are there, I suffered through them the other day. > Took me nearly two days to get stuff installed (selected too much). > Emacs20 never did install and since nobody around here has ever used > emacs, we blew it off of the system. > > If there is one thing I wish, it is that Emacs NOT be selected by default. > It is huge and if you are not already familliar with Debian enough to know > to unselect it, it can triple the time required to install your system. > > George Bonser > > The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near you! > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ruud Janssen IPO, Center for Research on User-System Interaction Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Tel: +31 40 247 5206 Fax: +31 40 243 1930 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tue.nl/ipo/ -------------------------------------------------------
