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Re: why is sarge "minimal" intall so huge compared to woody?



Am 2005-02-11 04:29:48, schrieb Joao Clemente:

> Hi Justin and people interested in this report.
> I just "minimally installed" a fresh woody and a fresh sarge on vmware 
> machines and using the same options as much as possible.
> 
> The results are:
> woody: 152 MB, 105 packages installed (100 packages selected)

??? You mean the Base-Install ???
It is for woody 102 packages with 64 MBytes
on a ext3 filesystem with blocks of 2 kBytes

> sarge: 372 MB, 231 packages installed (226 packages selected)

With the base of Sarge I do nt know the Packages,
but there are 190 MByte.

> Repeting what I said on my 1rst post, I wonder why such a big minimal 
> install ...
> As a curiosity, /usr of sarge takes 223 MB and in woody takes 50 MB!

...which mean, I cant upgrade to SARGE, because
my 500 MByte partitions are too small.

> Hmmm... what if one gets woody installed, then apt-get dist-upgrade to 
> sarge? What would happen then? I think I'll try that... after getting 
> some sleep maybe :-)

:-)

> Bye for now
> Joao

Greetings
Michelle

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