On Tuesday 12 April 2005 22:26, Joey Hess wrote: > The second time I read the documentaion, it says you > need 2.058 Gb to install and an Installed size of > 1.5Gb to run. But it overran the partition of 2.3Gb > !! > Sarge Installation Manual, Section C.3. - Disk Space > Needed for Tasks, available @ > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/ For one thing I suspect that William forgot to add the size of the base installation to the space requirements listed in the table for tasks. The total of base and desktop is almost 2300MB according to the old table. Also, if he had not installed in English, he could have had to reserve space for a localization task. The listed sizes were inadequate though. Currently 2450MB is needed. The size of the base installation has changed considerably: from 178 to 573 MB! Was the old count taken before the "fix" of aptitude? The tasks are all smaller. I guess partly because some stuff that was installed as part of a task is now part of base. I suspect the main reason to be that if you check the size of tasks from aptitude, you will also get packages that are _recommended_ by packages in the task. However, if a task is installed from tasksel, these packages will _not_ be installed by default! I have taken the sizes as reported by aptitude when started from "tasksel new" because that is closest to a actual installation. Here is a page that has both the new and old table. I've also included two extra paras to cover the issues mentioned earlier on. Comments welcome. http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/d-i/apcs03.html Plain "tasksel" will also behave differently for the Mail server task as it is listed as "installed" while actually some constituent packages are not yet installed. While checking the sizes I noticed the following: - The Print server task is completely broken as it will pull in X and Gnome: the task has foomatic-gui which depends python-gnome2 which ... - Same goes for SQL server task which will pull in X because of pgaccess which depends on tk8.3 which depends on xlibs... IMHO this is completely broken for server tasks. Cheers, FJP
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