Installation on Old System [was re: WARTY review]

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:20:03AM -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 21:40:29 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> > The installer asks a question about this, whether it is OK to fetch updates
> > from the network.  At least, it does so in a standard install.  Was this
> > question skipped in your custom install?  If so, it's not much of a bug; a
> > custom install deliberately leaves things like this up to you, and does the
> > minimum to get the system up and running.
> 
> The installer asked if I wanted to get updates from the network, then
> it proceeded to configure the apt sources... BUT when I was finished
> it had not retrieved the updated packages -- just configured some
> sources.

And running apt-get upgrade immediately after the installation fetched
updates?  Or you had to run apt-get update first?

> > Do you really mean EVERYTHING?  The custom install selects only the base
> > packages, and nothing more.  No window system, no graphical applications,
> > nothing.  The available package list will contain everything which is on the
> > CD, which includes the entire default install (with GNOME, etc.).
> 
> I typed "custom" at the boot prompt. What you are saying is correct;
> what I meant to say is that when you run dselect it does not SHOW any
> other packages to install -- it shows only the few dozen that are part
> of a very basic installation. It's as if there's a special repository
> for just the base installation and that's all you see.
> 
> I have not gone back to investigate further (yet) -- as you can
> imagine I've spent a bit too much time on this puzzle over the last
> several weeks. HOWEVER I am very satisfied with the outcome so far.
> It's very nice to be able to make something work. :-)

Probably dselect's available database is not up to date.  Try "dselect
update".

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 - mdz