What are you talking about - It shouldn't be confusing, and I am using firmware.bw123 wrote:I'm confused by the whole thread. You have spent days and days, at least one twelve hour day, trying to remaster an iso for what reason? You don;t have to recreate the iso to use firmware during install, and there's no reason to use preseed just to do one laptop? is there?
The laptop has a 128G drive, so I'm wanting to install the core Mate desktop only.
It's how I install my desktop PC using Ubuntu (what I'm typing to you now from). After the mini install, my NIC is recognized, so I can just grab my install script from my server using wget and run it to install the core desktop (without all the extra stuff).. I prefer no extra stuff installed - for instance, I don't use any text editor in the repos, I use a paid Sublime Text editor. I don't use any movie player, I use my own custom built firefox and it plays local files just fine - etc..
I'm switching to Debian for the first time. I had been using Ubuntu since 2006 for home machines and my servers are all RHE - so I thought maybe there was something I was doing wrong with Debian or this laptop, and hence the post here - which confused you.
Really, I shouldn't need to explain why I'm wanting to do something. Your answer simply wasn't helpful.
I'll get it figured out - thanks to all that responded helpfully.
