Hi All, Well last night was an exercise in futility. I successfully copied my 32 GB SD card to another, and it booted just like the original. So then I did the research and used systemctl to disable the GUI boot. Then I had to remove the desktops, it showed two mates and one Gnome, the flashback metacity version. Using apt remove --purge, I got rid of the Gnome, but not the mate completely. After exhaustive researching, I did the apt remove --purge with mate-* and that finally got rid of it. All this is so I can install OMV on it. But after all that, rebooting, doing apt clean and searching for any remainder of a desktop, OMV says there is still a desktop installed. My apt remove actions even removed the /usr/share/xsessions folder. So now I'm going to mark that up as a learning session and I'm now working on installing Debian server on this i386 computer. I downloaded Debian 11.7 net install ISO, and now I'm trying to get speech so I can install it on the same SD card. I thought I'd let folks know since I did get some info on using DD when I started this. Eventually I want to repurpose all of my old computers to be media servers.
Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: K0LNY To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 26, 2023 5:08 PM Subject: removing desktop Hi, I want to remove my desktop environment on the Debian I copied to an SD card. It boots okay, but it has two choices of Mate and a metacity Gnome flashback. I need to have no desktop installed, because OMV says it won't work if it detects a desktop. I ran: sudo update-alternatives --config x-session-manager but I only got choices to choose which one to boot to, not to remove them. Does anyone know how this is done? Thanks. Glenn