Re: Debian-Lite : The Project
To get a feel for this, I made up what seemed to be a comfortable working
Debian and went through the excercise of creating it from a minimum set of
packages. The working Debian was just on 40 Mb and it needed only 8 Mb
of packages to produce this, as most files came from base1_3.tgz.
In other words the space required in round figures on a cdrom is 12 Mb for
the disk-i386 set plus 8Mb for my selection of packages, or 20 Mb. So
with 98 Mb available the is 78 Mb free to add other things.
I created a new tree which was a partial copy of bo, being just the
selected packages and I used the bo Packages.gz file as is. dpkg was
quite happy with this. The only trick is to unselect all except the
required packages before using dpkg --set-selections.
Here is the output of my dpkg --get-selections:-
adduser install
ae install
base-files install
base-passwd install
bash install
bsdmainutils install
bsdutils install
cpp install
cron install
debianutils install
dialog install
diff install
dpkg install
dpkg-ftp install
e2fsprogs install
ed install
fileutils install
findutils install
getty install
gpm install
grep install
groff install
gzip install
hostname install
isapnptools install
kbd install
ldso install
libc5 install
libdb1 install
libg++27 install
libgdbm1 install
libnet install
libreadline2 install
lilo install
login install
lpr install
mailx install
makedev install
man-db install
manpages install
mawk install
mbr install
mime-support install
modconf install
modutils install
mount install
ncurses-base install
ncurses-bin install
ncurses3.0 install
netbase install
netstd install
nvi install
passwd install
perl install
ppp install
procps install
sed install
setserial install
shellutils install
smail install
sysklogd install
syslinux install
sysvinit install
tar install
textutils install
timezone install
update install
util-linux install
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