On 12/27/2016 4:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 27 December 2016 22:34:35 Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/27/2016 12:55 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/27/2016 8:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
[snip]
I can't give any info from the particular box in use at the start
of this thread. It has developed some strange, apparently hardware
related, that prevents me from doing a clean Debian install using
my normal preseed.cfg . It no longer has a functional Debian.
However I have another box displaying the same symptoms. But I do
not know from how many DVDs of Debian 8.6.0 packages were
installed.
When running aptitude it reports:
<begin quote>
aptitude 0.6.11
--- Installed Packages (869)
--- Not Installed Packages (41553)
--- Virtual Packages (5124)
--- Tasks (216)
</end quote>
Synaptic shows >> 200 packages with the star in box icon.
[snip]
At least some of my problems were related to not quite failed
hardware.
My test bed laptop has been replaced by a new (to me ;) laptop.
An install using DVD #1 only and my custom preseed went smoothly.
There no "star in box icons" showing in Synaptic at this time.
Try adding another of the DVDs into the repository list and see whether the
stars appear - and let us know!
The more DVDs scanned -> the more "star in box icons".
After having scanned the first 6 DVDs, aptitude reports:
--- New Packages (11291)
--- Installed Packages (870)
--- Not Installed Packages (6892)
--- Virtual Packages (2382)
--- Tasks (214)
CONCLUSION - "star in box icons" meaningless.
