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Re: Lean lenny on USB stick



On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:01:31PM -0400, KS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I trying to install lenny on a 1GB USB stick and after a couple of tries
> I got a base install finished and everything is working fine. The next
> thing was to have X running and along with a desktop environment. I
> installed XFCE4 on it and now I have about 150MB free space left. I
> wanted to install a www-browser. Epiphany-browser and galeon need other
> things from gnome and hence are not an option (with only 150MB
> remaining). There is iceweasel that would use only about 30MB. Are there
> other options for a basic graphical browser which will not use too much
> space and has less number of dependencies?

I like dillo.

> 
> Also, which packages can I safely purge from the base-install to regain
>  some disk space?
> 

depending on what locales are installed, localepurge might save you a
good chunk of space. You select which locales to keep and it deletes
all the rest. it also hooks into the end of apt and will keep those
locales from being installed inthe future.

A

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