Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?
February 19, 2021 4:45 PM, "Gunnar Wolf" <gwolf@debian.org> wrote:
> Pete Batard dijo [Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 02:48:41PM +0000]:
>
>>
>> The end result is that you may not have as much flexibility with user setup,
>> partitioning and so on, as you would have with using the formal Debian
>> installer.
>
> I completely agree here - That's why I¹ have stubbornly refused adding
> packages to the base install; the image is shipped with a base system,
> adding only the smallest possible handful of packages I could find to
> get a working system (ssh, parted, dosfstools, iw, wpasupplicant,
> raspi-firmware and firmware-brcm80211). The anti-pattern is the
> overloaded Raspbian (specially its first iterations, before they
> started shipping the non-GUI version).
>
> ¹ I speak in first person as it is me who builds said images. Diedrik,
> who answered to your mail, is also a team member and has helped
> quite a bit with QA and insight.
>
>> And of course, the problem with preinstalled images like these is that
>> distro maintainers need to multiply them for every platform they want to
>> support, which quickly become unmanageable and leaves any user of any
>> platform that hasn't deemed worth supporting stranded...
>
> Right again -- The motivation for Michael Stapelberg first, then for
> me to take on his work, is simply the amount of Raspberry systems out
> there for which there was no easy way to get Debian running, despite
> it being completely capable of doing so.
An advantages of minimal images versus normal install process is less user time and tedium. If you have several Pi's to setup similarly, with favorite sets of a few additional packages, headless, it is faster to dd a minimal image, then do a few manual steps and run a script for your customizations. Versus the longer step-by-step process of normal installs. Thank you Gunnar, and Michael!
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