----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Is there a good way to prevent the installer from uninstalling the >> speakup >> modified kernel? > > The way that's worked for me is to leave the minimal install, and just > bring in whatever packages you need by hand after you boot into the > system. In other words, not to use the task selection part of the > installer where you select groups of packages, but to just end the > install when the installer tells you that you have a minimal system > installed, and asks you if you want to continue, and install > additional packages. > Yeah, another thing that works is to run the "Select and install Software" step and then re-run the base install step. That messes up apt. you have to manually recreate your sources.list after booting into your new debian system. Maybe you could re-run the base install and the step to configure apt as well.