On Fri, Dec 3, 2021, 9:25 PM Kenneth Parker <sea7k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2021, 9:33 PM Kenneth Parker <sea7k...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 3, 2021, 9:03 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 12:30:52PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: >>> > netinst is cli only >>> >>> ... what? NO! >>> >>> > try >>> > >>> > sudo tasksel >>> > >>> > and choose desktop options. xfce is listed >>> >>> The netinst image contains the same installer as the full DVD-1 image >>> does. >>> >>> The task selection menu that you get at the end of an installation >>> is the same, whether you use netinst or DVD-1. It makes no difference. >>> You can still install a Desktop Environment, or not, as you choose. >>> >> >> This may be User Error (as I am capable of making), but I did not notice >> the usual offer to use Network Mirrors to provide Graphical Environments. >> > > This bugged me, so I blew away a separate Bullseye Minimal vm, so I could > try that Testing version of netinst again. > > I *did* make a User error. I somehow failed to get packages from the > Network the first try. Now, I am happily installing Bookworm on a second, > Virtual Machine. > The miracle of virtualization :-) It doesn't keep you from making mistakes. Instead it helps you make them faster than you could ever imagine before :-) > Careful what options you choose. > > Kenneth Parker > >>
