an observation, and question

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:20:45PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
> Of course, it wasn't actually checkboxes like in a GUI. It was the curses 
> left & right bracket kind of check box. Like when you're selecting  
> synthesizers when configuring a kernel for speakup.

Yes, exactly, that's what I meant by checkboxes. What you described
seemed familiar to me, which prompted me to think back why that is
so. What you're describing was in fact the case for the netinst cds
that Shane put together. On those disks, it was possible to go down
the list of package configurations, and uncheck what you didn't
want. That's not the case anymore in the iso I used recently.

>
> Anyway, so its probably gone. You mightconsider doing a lenny install. Or 

This was a Lenny install.

> else just do your own install with the linux commands. Its been 2 or 3 
> years since I've done that and every time I have to do it I google it. 
> But there's enough keywords in the steps below to find a more detailed 
> howto.The steps are something like this:

Yeah, that's a possibility.

> You didn't say in your original post how big your hard drive is or what 
> kind of internet connection you have. I'm just assuming that it took a 
> really long time for the install because it has a slow connection. But it 
> is probably more likely that the install just hung ffor some reason. You 
> might consider just trying again.

The hard drive is 6.4G. The internet connection is adsl, 1.5 mbps down, 896
kbps up, though it syncs at around 990 kbps down, 864 kbps up. The
only hang was like I mentioned, when it was waiting at the popularity
contest prompt over night. Other than that, the hd was whirring the
whole time. This is an older drive of course, so you can hear it when
it's working.

Greg


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