Greetings, Hey, this question has been asked before, and no one gave imo a really good answer. What is the minimum installation debs? There are two schools of thought. First, the packages listed in basecont.txt in the disks-<platform> contained in the base file. The other is that once you reboot during installation, select advanced setup, enter dselect, escape out, and take what's given. One might think that they would be the same. So, I took the liberty of doing a fresh install with disk 1 of the 2.2r3 dist. At the prompt to choose simple/advanced, I switched consoles and did a 'dpkg -l > dpkg_pre.txt', then I entered dpkg, hit escape, installed the packages, and then did a 'dpkg -l > dpkg_post.txt'! I also did a df -k and a df -l. Well, it turns out that there are 79 packages in the base dist, but once you go in and out of dselect, you end up with 169 packages. It takes up about 220M of space. Attached is a tar.gz file that has the details. By the way, if you are planning to make CD-ROM's with the base packages, I suggest installing apt-move and rsync into a base installation. Then you can do an 'apt-move sync' that will fetch all the gory details and create a mirror of the packages installed in your base system. It does all the dirty work with the packages files, etc. Hope this helps any interested! Brooks
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