FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.
I'm new to debian, but not linux. I've installed and ran RH, SuSE and
Slackware(ran this one for five years) and I will need some hand holding
with this distribution. Installation is turning out to be a nightmare. For
the last attempt I defined a partition scheme as follows:
/ 100M
/swap 512M
/boot 15M
/usr 5G
/usr/local 5G
/var 7G
/tmp 100M
/home The remaining part of a 30G drive, approx 12G
Should not have been a problem, right? All of it went well, but at the end
of the package installation it reported broken packages so I tried to
reinstall them. The result was not only a failure, but without me altering
anything in dselect, it installed an additional 700M. At the end of that,
it reported the original broken packages, plus some additionals I never
selected to install. So I tried then to uninstall all the broken packages,
and install some others, and it seemed to go okay, though the amount of disk
space required, as reported by dselect was exceptionally high. After this
it reported raidtools as broken, which I thought odd since I don't have a
RAID setup. Regardless, this process went round and round and eventually,
without any intervention by me except to press the enter key for the dialog
boxes, it installed until it overflowed a 5G /usr partition.
Why is the setup/package installation system installing things I didn't ask
for?
I've increased the /usr partition to 7G this time, but I'm not looking
forward to another 12 hour installation while debian's install system
decides I need raidtools, or Atlas-3DNow(which won't run on my system
because I only have PIII 800s).
Any suggestions?
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