Re: Minimum Potato Files
On Saturday 13 October 2001 09:58, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> 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.
I believe the minimum is zero (no debs).
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