Re: [OT] secure, minimal Debian installation for linux-based thin clients?
On Friday 18 October 2002 03:46 pm, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
> > Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like
> > Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian
> > install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we
> > need.
>
> Towards the end of the Debian installation process, when you're asked
> whether you want to run tasksel or dselect, you can choose dselect and
> exit it before installing any packages. If you do that, you're left
> with a really minimal install. You might be able to base your work on
> this.
>
> noah
This is what I do as well. On a 1 GB / partition Debian only takes up about
15% of the partition (when installed in this manner) and hardly anything is
installed. I have to apt-get install less... now that's what I call minimal.
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