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[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Dan,

The prompt for host name contains a default suggestion, which you could 
accept just by pressing enter there. It is sort of like the old 
Slackware "darkstar". The domain name is a separate question.

As for finding out what's in a package set, I really don't know how one 
would do that. The manual choice is certainly not the way. That's for 
folks who are already familiar with packages. I have always just picked 
"desktop" and then later have added stuff one by one as needed. It is so 
easy to add or remove packages that the desktop selection turns out to 
be just a general purpose "starter set" for the average user. I have 
found two sources really helpful which you can install with the apt-get 
command. They will put detailed documentation in your /usr/share/doc 
directory, where you can browse them with lynx or elinks, whichever you 
prefer. Do this:

apt-get install debian-reference-en
and
apt-get install rutebook

or you could get them both at once:

apt-get install debian-reference-en rutebook

The first of these has a man page, but the other only ends up in 
/usr/share/doc.

Those two should get you some mileage.

Chuck


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