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Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation

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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 23:07:35 -0500, Adrian O'Dell <crimsonmane@gmail.com> wrote:

> Previously during install, when selecting which Mirror to use, one could 
> press the up arrow and get a line to input a custom mirror location, 
> such as one kept locally. This feature seems to have been removed from 
> Debian8 installer.
> 
> ***
> 
> For a console-only (non-gui) environment, there should be added to the 
> list of GUIs "Console-Only" (or whatever wording you desire). Currently 
> it is assumed that no selection means no gui, which makes sense HOWEVER 
> if one deselected the bottom option "standard system utilities" gnome is 
> installed.
> 
> "standard system utilities" is vague; one would think this is such like 
> whois, tracert, etc. Perhaps this option should be removed, in tandem 
> with "Console-Only" being added.

So what does 'standard system utilities' actually mean? What does it install? I
always install from netinstall, and prefer text-mode environments. I usually
install X and a window manager later so I don't have to deal with a login
manager. In the past, I was always unsure of what 'standard system utilities'
actually meant, but took it as a euphemism for a basic text-mode environment.
Is this the case?

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unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Adrian O'Dell <crimsonmane@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 06:10 +0200
  Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-13 16:40 +0200
    Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 17:20 +0200
  Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 17:20 +0200
    Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Adrian O'Dell <crimsonmane@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 19:10 +0200
      Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 19:50 +0200
      Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 20:30 +0200
        Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 22:20 +0200
          Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Adrian O'Dell <crimsonmane@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 22:40 +0200
          Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-10-13 23:40 +0200
            Re: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:10 +0200
            Re: [OT] top-posting (was: unlisted mirrors & non-gui installation) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 09:10 +0200

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