Re: ["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>] Re: apt-get
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:19:44PM +0200, pseelig@mail.Uni-Mainz.de wrote:
> Try a fresh installation of potato, then reboot the new system for the
> first time and complete the installation by silently quitting the tasksel
> screen without choosing anything. You'll end up with some 79 MB disk
> space consumption. That's what i've been writing about. Maybe i should
> have canceled earlier...
80Mb? That seems pretty reasonable to me. From memory, you do get a basic
development system in that space. You could remove that if you really
needed to save space.
It's nice to support low disk space machines, but we shouldn't (IMHO)
do that at the expense of more modern machines.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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