Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.debian.user > #195433

Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9)

From Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9)
Date 2018-05-07 16:50 +0200
Message-ID <vMPCF-2tz-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <vMAaB-Tt-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <vMMEN-BP-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization less than infinite

Show all headers | View raw


jpff composed on 2018-05-07 12:34 (UTC+0100):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> My Debian installations are all net installs that include

>> 	tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false

>> on the kernel cmdline. I get nothing I don't need installed that way. Xorg and
>> whatever else I need I get with apt* once booted normally.

> That looks interesting; it attemts to answer my deep problem about no X, 
> xdm, xterm etc.

> My problem nowis I do not know where/how to apply this.  I have not seen 
> any mention of a kernel command line in the net install.  More please!

I'm not up to speed on the conventional HOWTO for answering this. I rarely use
conventional installation boot media. Virtually all my installs are in multiboot
environments. This enables installation booting by using a bootloader already
present on the system, by loading an installation kernel and initrd, complete
with the parameters mentioned, plus several others, such as network
configuration, and leaving off quiet and splash=silent.

IME, virtually any distro's installation media when its presence first appears
on screen allows for some method of appending parameters to the kernel cmdline.
It may be an "e" key, or an ESC key, or an up or down arrow key, or a function
key, and likely will suggest how when its screen first paints.
-- 
"Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you
get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation)

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

A long rant on Debian 9 John <jpff@codemist.co.uk> - 2018-05-06 23:20 +0200
  Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Forest Dean Feighner <forest.feighner@gmail.com> - 2018-05-06 23:40 +0200
  Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-07 00:20 +0200
    Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-05-07 05:40 +0200
      Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-07 17:30 +0200
        Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-07 17:40 +0200
          Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-05-07 23:50 +0200
            Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-08 00:10 +0200
              Re: A long rant on Debian 9 jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 18:00 +0200
            Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-08 00:10 +0200
            Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-08 09:50 +0200
              Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-05-08 14:00 +0200
                Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-05-08 14:40 +0200
                Re: A long rant on Debian 9 "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-08 16:00 +0200
                Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-05-08 21:00 +0200
            Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-05-08 16:00 +0200
              Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-05-08 16:10 +0200
    Re: A long rant on Debian 9 jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk> - 2018-05-07 13:40 +0200
      Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-07 14:20 +0200
        Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-05-07 16:50 +0200
        Re: A long rant on Debian 9 jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk> - 2018-05-07 16:50 +0200
          Re: A long rant on Debian 9 bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-07 17:10 +0200
          Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-07 18:00 +0200
      Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-05-07 14:30 +0200
      Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-07 16:50 +0200
        Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9) Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-05-08 00:10 +0200
          Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 00:30 +0200
            Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9) Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-05-08 00:40 +0200
              Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 01:20 +0200
                Re: minimal installation Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-05-12 23:50 +0200
                Re: minimal installation Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-13 00:30 +0200
            Re: minimal installation Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-08 02:00 +0200
              Re: minimal installation Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 21:00 +0200
          Re: minimal installation Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-08 00:30 +0200
            Re: minimal installation Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-05-08 01:40 +0200
  Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-05-07 01:10 +0200
  Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-05-07 15:10 +0200
    Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2018-05-07 15:40 +0200
    Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-07 16:00 +0200
      Re: A long rant on Debian 9 jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk> - 2018-05-07 19:20 +0200
        Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-07 20:20 +0200
          Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2018-05-07 22:40 +0200
          Re: A long rant on Debian 9 jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 15:40 +0200
            Re: 3-button trackpoint configuration (was: A long rant on Debian 9) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-08 16:10 +0200
            Re: A long rant on Debian 9 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 21:20 +0200

csiph-web