[GTALUG] Seeking help with a unique Linux project?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Jan 5 14:21:04 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 01:49:28PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Again, you are the voice of practical reason.  granted,  I prefer installing
> the best Debian first then layering in the extras.  Some posts here in other
> therads though may suggest issues with Jessie.  I want this machine to
> automatically boot to the console, since i will not be using it directly.
> If Jessie now makes this a challenge, what is the best  and least difficult
> solution?

If you unselect 'desktop' during the install, then there is no graphical
desktop, and it will boot text mode only.  Jessie is no different that
way than any other debian release ever was.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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