13 Aug
2015
13 Aug
'15
12:43 a.m.
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 07:13:39 pm Felix Miata wrote:
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 14:16
(UTC-0400):
Well, I haven't decided that it'll be the *only* DM at this point, but odds are
that I'll probably end up using it a good bit more than others, which I'm finding
limiting.
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.
I guess I didn't know what to expect when I installed it. With me being used to
Slackware, I guess I was hoping that the installation software would prompt me for some
of the choices, when it turned out it didn't. And I've seen since then a bit
about how to make some of those choices with command-line arguments to the installer and
similar, but I didn't know that those would be necessary.
Back to reading the fine manual, I guess. :-)
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