On Wed, 01 Oct 2014, Alan E. Davis wrote: > After many years, I have finally gotten a working Debian install. It > looks ok, but there are a few issues.
Years? Why did it take you years? > The installation media handling of wifi-connections was not > transparent, but it worked fine. I had to NOT configure the wifi > connection, after signing in to the router. I was unable to contact > a mirror; however, once I decided to install without configuring > wifi during the install, and rebooted, I was connected > automatically! Wonderful! It would be well if the user could > predict this behavior. Did you read the installation instructions? What to do is all there. Sometimes, mirrors are down or under too heavy a load to respond. Check /etc/apt/sources.list. Is the mirror repository information correct? > Now that I am connected, however, synaptic does not allow me to > configure the software components that are "Downloadable from the > Internet." Checkboxes will not accept any change. You need to be root for synaptic to work. When you start synaptic, it should ask you to enter the root -- not your user -- password. > Is there any trick one can use here? No tricks. No hacks. Just follow the instructions, the HOWTOs, the wikis. > It is awesome that this installer is working this well. Thank you. Installers have gotten a lot "smarter," but you still need to know a little "tech" about installing a distro, if only to understand what is being asked. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141001192225.3d4f2...@debian7.boseck208.net