Debian-Lite : The Project
There is obviously a desire to make a small, simple Debian and so I
propose a project to make
one available.
Target User Group:
MS Windows users and people with limited technical skills how want to
install
a Linux based system on Intel PC.
Aims:
+Produce a Debian installation option that provides a fully functionally
(to be defined)
desktop system with minimal input from the user.
+To provide non-technical documenatation for the installation.
+To provide tools to extract the files required to create Debian-lite as
a subset (100Mb?) suitable for inclusion on a CD with other software
+Enhance any standard Debian package installation scripts if any current
set up processes are too complicated
Tasks:
1) Identify the functionality required by Debian-Lite (DL). (I
will post something by 4/AUG)
2) Identify the set of required packages to provide functionality.
3) Identify changes to Debian Base system install to give install and
configuration.
4) Design, implement and test installation.
5) Design, implement and test the DL creation scripts.
6) Enhance individual package configuration scripts as required.
Issues
1) Do we need to provide umsdos support for root file system? Can it be
done?
2) How can users create swap and ext2 slices on a FAT32 system?
3) The DL creation scripts need to be able to create an 8.3 set of files
if
required.
Additional tasks
1) Set up mailling list (I will address this)
Does anyone disagree with this? Are SPI happy to have this functionality
in the Official Debian distribution? Does the SPI board have view on any
of this?
Comments please.
Regards,
Alec
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