Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 14:16 (UTC-0400):
Lisi Reisz wrote:
I have always installed Debian with root enabled. This may make a difference.
I don't remember ever being offered that option when I installed. Nor a few other things that I was used to, like being able to configure my network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found DHCP on the network. :-(
Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to install with some specific invocation that I missed?
I don't know those answers, but I have 97%+ fixed IP installations regardless of distro here, and nearly always installations are via HTTP. This is from the installer's syslog from the Jessie installation I referred to upthread:
Jul 11 03:02:18 kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: expert net.ifnames=0 ipv6.disable=1 netcfg/disable_dhcp=true netcfg/get_hostname=myhost hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false nosplash splash=0 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk vga=788
Unless I edited it on the fly, which I do not remember now a month later, that cmdline resulted from a Grub (Legacy) stanza I created after reading Debian network installation instructions. Key to avoiding DHCP at the outset is the inclusion of netcfg/disable_dhcp=true while tasks=standard and base-installer/install-recommends=false are about preventing litter from other desktops' deps on a system intended to have TDE as its only DM.
AFAIR, I created zero ordinary users until quite some time after installation was over and I had rebooted several times.