Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:42:51AM -0800, Michael M. wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 22:34 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
>
> > What is a "Standard system" in Tasksel?
>
>
> According to this:
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apds02.html
>
> "Standard system" in tasksel takes up 365MB of disk space, whereas the
> minimal base installation will take 227MB. I'm not sure, though, if
> there is a list of what is included in the former that is missing from
> the latter.
>
>
tasksel is implemented as a perl script in Etch. It has a man page
which is worth reading. The task options that I see when I run
"tasksel --list-tasks" are:
i desktop Desktop environment
u web-server Web server
i print-server Print server
u dns-server DNS server
u file-server File server
i mail-server Mail server
u database-server SQL database
u laptop Laptop
u manual manual package selection
(The 'i's and 'u's indicate which have been selected on my
system. They may very well be different on other systems.) I do not
see "Standard system" as a declared task option. Perhaps OP meant
"Desktop environment".
In any case "tasksel --list-packages <task>" lists the packages that
will be installed for any of the several defined tasks.
Since it is a perl script, perl support must already be in the base
system for it to be executable. (duh ;-) So, from the point of view
of some Linux users, the Debian base system is not truly 'base only'.
HTH
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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