Hi, I'm playing with Debian 9.4 stretch on other architectures via the QEMU emulator (eventually for security research.) I can't figure out how to handle the numerical software selection menu in the _text_ installer.
I managed to install Debian x86 inside QEMU, using the newt installer. However, I'm having trouble getting the newt installer to run on emulated MIPS (I only see a Go Back button at language selection, that's a separate problem.) I can get the text installer to launch via passing DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text as a kernel parameter, and right now my objective is to get Debian installed inside emulated MIPS via the text installer. The challenge is the Software Selection menu, with items 1-11 with items like desktop environments, print server and SSH server. I played with this for several hours yesterday on the x86 installer, and I could not figure this out. I tried entering numbers separated by a space at the prompt, entering ? at this prompt. I tried passing tasks?="ssh-server, standard" tasksel:tasksel/first?="ssh-server, standard" with or without a space after the comma. I looked at preseed files to get the right variables. I read all about boot parameters. No matter what I did, desktop and print-server were installed on x86. I used the newt installer to get x86 Debian installed. But I'm having trouble with newt installer on MIPS right now. At the Software Selection menu in the text installer, with typical numerical options 1-11, how do I make the selection of ssh-server and standard? Thanks in advance. I beat my head on this problem for several hours yesterday, and I'd appreciate a helpful hint. Alan
