On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: > Perhaps youi can suggest how one would do that Jason. You see I am in the > middle of an install from CD, and in order to take advantage of the > pre-rolled profiles (Standard, Development, Workstation, etc) I must answer > Y to the question do I wish to use pre-rolled profiles. Believe me I do as > a novice, otherwise I am faced with making choices from 2500 packages, most > of which I know nothing about. Once having made the choice 'Y' I am kicked > immediately into dselect and the Select step is performed automatically. > dselect is running now and if I abort it I will lose the pre-rolled profile. > Perhaps you know a way around this while preserving the profile I have > selected?
Are you sure you will lose the pre-rolled profile? It seems to me that once the Select step is done, dselect saves the list of packages somewhere. I think I can go into the Select step, choose something, and then choose "Quit" instead of the Install step and it will remember that I want that package next time I run dselect. Your mileage may vary though, as I know nothing about apt. Hope this helps, Patrick
