[SOLVED] Finish base (bare-bones) install

jrdioko · 06-04-2011, 07:21 PM

My ethernet and wireless adapters were not recognized by the Squeeze installer (I'm installing on a Thinkpad T420i), so I let the installer finish without having a network connection (so only a base system was installed). I've now manually gotten the network working, and I'd like to "continue" the install, installing and setting up the normal, recommended set of packages. How can I do this?

Hungry ghost · 06-04-2011, 07:42 PM

You can use tasksel. Depending on which use you will give to this system, you can use tasksel install desktop (for a desktop system), or simply run tasksel alone to be prompted with a menu where you can choose which set of packages to install. You can also execute:

Code:

tasksel --list-tasks

to see the complete list of tasks or sets of packages to install (pretty much like executing tasksel without arguments).

jrdioko · 06-04-2011, 07:44 PM

Perfect, thanks. It looks like if you just run tasksel alone, since the tasks were already selected (just not fully installed) it doesn't do anything. But manually running "tasksel install desktop", etc. does the trick.