Am 01.05.2023 um 10:23 schrieb Michel Verdier: > Le 1 mai 2023 DdB a écrit : > >> But omitting GNOME from the list lead to a system failing to boot with >> tons of messages stating the absense of all kind of gnome parts. > > To install without gnome I select the task ssh server then after I > manually select what I want, and a WM if needed. > > Thank you for encouraging me. A good night sleep did help as well. Following your advice, i retried a fresh install. This time round, i did permit the reformatting of everything, and just noted a new todo to resolve that later. But ...
The install succeeded, an sshd is running ON a machine with GNOME and all its (un-) pleasant surprises like: firefox, openoffice, and much more. But i know for sure, that i deselected it and only left Desktop + ssh server. I guess, that means, that the installer chose gnome as its preferred desktop. Ok, i will go on from here, as i certainly want a DE + GNOME, only the standard tools, i wouldnt have all of them. ====================== One explanation of my choice to stick with PARTUUID's: In my overall stategy of using my computer, i am sometimes copying (dd) whole partitions into a backup, a secondary partition or a VM, which can easily lead to difficulties, if the same LABELS were used, which can be changed, but reside INSIDE the partition itself, whereas PARTUUID's reside in the GPT, which is not affected on partition copy operations. Thus my choice was related to convenience, avoiding some adjustments after partition copy operations. Only the installer interferes with the so called "persistent" PARTUUID's, which i regard as being offensive (or ignorant - for that matter). I am going to fix that later (on my machine), returning to my preferred fstab format of using PARTUUID whereever appropriate. Bonne journée DdB