On Wednesday 12 August 2015 07:13:39 pm Felix Miata wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 14:16 (UTC-0400): > > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >> I have always installed Debian with root enabled. This may make a > >> difference. > > > I don't remember ever being offered that option when I installed. Nor a > > few other things that I was used to, like being able to configure my > > network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found > > DHCP on the network. :-( > > > Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to install with some > > specific invocation that I missed? > > I don't know those answers, but I have 97%+ fixed IP installations regardless > of distro here, and nearly always installations are via HTTP. This is from > the installer's syslog from the Jessie installation I referred to upthread: > > Jul 11 03:02:18 kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: expert net.ifnames=0 > ipv6.disable=1 netcfg/disable_dhcp=true netcfg/get_hostname=myhost > hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false tasks=standard > base-installer/install-recommends=false nosplash splash=0 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk > vga=788 > > Unless I edited it on the fly, which I do not remember now a month later, > that cmdline resulted from a Grub (Legacy) stanza I created after reading > Debian network installation instructions. Key to avoiding DHCP at the outset > is the inclusion of netcfg/disable_dhcp=true while tasks=standard and > base-installer/install-recommends=false are about preventing litter from > other desktops' deps on a system intended to have TDE as its only DM. Well, I haven't decided that it'll be the *only* DM at this point, but odds are that I'll probably end up using it a good bit more than others, which I'm finding limiting. > AFAIR, I created zero ordinary users until quite some time after installation > was over and I had rebooted several times. I guess I didn't know what to expect when I installed it. With me being used to Slackware, I guess I was hoping that the installation software would prompt me for some of the choices, when it turned out it didn't. And I've seen since then a bit about how to make some of those choices with command-line arguments to the installer and similar, but I didn't know that those would be necessary. Back to reading the fine manual, I guess. :-) -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin