RE: Debian-Desktop

[Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>]

After getting advice from

Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany
  leutloff@sundancer.oche.de  http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/

I have had another go at my minimalist installation with some success.
Instead of using get-selections and put-selections I simply made my own
Packages.gz and then ran dselect in the usual way on my own cut down
mirror.  Running dselect was a breeze and only two packages (smail and
gpm) required any input at all.

If anyone wants to build on this work, the following files are available
from ftp://oak.scotch.wa.edu.au/pub/debian/lite.

-rw-r--r--   1 allen    allen        5827 Aug 15 08:42 Packages.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 allen    allen        1428 Aug 15 07:33 ls-lR.gz
-rwxr--r--   1 allen    allen         197 Aug 14 21:37 scanpack*

ls-lR is a listing of my cut down mirror and scanpack is a script that
makes Packages.gz. 

That site has a low bandwidth link so please avoid using it during
business hours on weekdays.

Lindsay
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