John, At this point, wouldn't a few words "if you want a simple command line interface system with networking your finished, skip this step" be very helpful?
It certainly would give people the answer they need. There must be a reason that the problem is so much of a problem that people search out this list to ask this very question. So why isn't this information of guidance in the installer? It would be of great help to myself and others. Finally after all these years we can install Debian on our laptops which only have WiFi and we know by reading a simple statement that we can skip the next acquire extra software step and were done. Obviously, I am not the only one who needs this to be stated. There is an excellent text browser called lynx that can access most websites that other text browsers fail to access. The problem is that a dozen or more times it asks for confirmation to continue. There is a lynx.conf file circulating informally in blind email lists that someone has edited all the needed parts of the extremely long lynx.cfg file. Even for a sighted person that lynx.cfg file is huge and difficult to read but with a screen reader it's nearly impossible. The developer has been asked many times to include as an option this lynx.cfg file to make his program very useful to users of screen readers and those who are just using text browsers out of preference, but each time he refuses. It's his program. It seems silly to me and to everyone who uses lynx to not be given a choice with the installation. But things remain as they were. There should be some place to make suggestions that will help the accessibility community, even suggestions that will eliminate people asking the same question. To me asking the same question means that the same problem still remains without having been fixed. Regards, David On Mon, May 29, 2023, 02:57 john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote: > On 5/29/23 04:33, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > I've had it work that way Martin, but it's not working for Glenn. > > > > I also don't understand what you mean by "I start the installer with > medium > > priority" - I've never seen a choice. > > It's there in the advance mode, mind the accessibility wiki! > > > > > It should be an explicit choice to have a configured Debian Command Line > > Interface (CLI) Text Mode. > At the prompt that ask for what package to install, select the one > without DE. > > Instead of ranting/complaining, I would suggest you to read the > extensive Debian's doc. > > -- > John Doe > >
