On Friday 04 March 2011 09:21:01 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 04 mar 11, 08:55:17, Lisi wrote: > > <quote> You will do a standard installation, that is, you will install > > only the minimum environment. </quote> > > As I understand it 'standard' in this context refers to packages up to > (and including) standard priority. If you don't know what I'm talking > about see 'apt-cache show exim4 | grep Priority'. > > > I have been given this instruction and am having problems interpretting > > it, since The Debian site says (a propos of Sarge, but the course > > material was written some years ago): > > > > <quote> In a default Debian 3.1 standard installation you will end up > > with OpenSSH, Exim (depending on how you configured it) and the RPC > > portmapper available as network services[4]. If you did not go through a > > standard installation but selected an expert installation you can end up > > with no active network services. </quote> > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html > > section 3.6 > > > > So the Debian site distinguishes between "standard" and "expert". But > > our instructions continue: > > 'expert' install is the one where you set 'priority=expert' on booting. > > IIRC in sarge times you got a prompt at boot. If you pressed Enter it > would do a 'priority=normal' install and if you wrote 'expert' it would > do the 'priority=expert' install (with a lot more options). That manual > would have better used 'normal' install, but now it's considered > obsolete and no one will update it. > > > <quote> When you start the installation from the selected media, choose > > the expert mode and follow the steps until the end of the process. > > </quote> > > > > In other words, standard and expert are the same thing. Help!!! > > In the context of going through the whole install (from boot to running > the system) standard means 'priority=normal' (not so many questions) and > 'expert' is the one where you get a lot more choices and can tweak all > sorts of things *including* the package selection.
Thanks, Andrei. My preferred method of dealing with the problem would be to go on to a later question and come back to this one when I have stopped panicking. But the other questions rely on this one!!! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103041004.30912.lisi.re...@gmail.com
