Re: Minimal Install
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Mike Patterson wrote:
> The problem is that I'm trying to do a debian install in less than 100
> megs. Of course this means forgoing things like X, etc... But every time
> I go through dselect and choose packages to remove, it refuses to comply!
> Instead, it complains about failed dependancies, etc, that are listed as
> ok. Does anyone know the magical combinations of packages to start out
> with a simple system that I can add onto as I need to?
I've installed debian on a 54 Meg hard drive with 10 megs of swap, all you
have to do is make sure that the first time you run dselect you unselect
everything it wants to add to your system then add only what you need.
Also if you're lucky (like I was) you can get away with not installing
perl, but leaving perl-base which will work for many things, that saved me
3 megs and made the entire thing possible ;>
In 54 megs I got diald, ppp and a good portion of the documentation/man
pages. You will likely not want to use IPX, use samba and TCP/IP instead.
Jason
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