Re: How do yo u install minimal X with fluxbox on Etch?
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:13:38AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> >On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:56:41PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> >> On 5/11/07, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote:
> >> >On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:42:31PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> >> >> Even though I do not need to install X on my new Etch console system,
> >> >> I would like to know how do you install X, is there some new way.
> >> >>
> >> >> How to install a minimal X so that if I need to run some remove X
> >> >> apps, I can, with ssh.
> Thanks for the great list. I also looked at DSL. Very nice progs come
> in the 50 MB plus I downloaded some utils needed for maintenance to
> put in mydsl extension but the 3.2 and 3.3 both fail to burn the
> remaster. The remaster boots in a minimal shell.
>
> If that becomes successful, then I would put the above list and some
> more that I have from my old sarge testing time, all console utils
> using apt-get I have in the mydsl.
I looked at DSL but rejected it for this box because, as a tool box, it
needs to be kept up-to-date and secure since I may have to access the
internet directly. I didn't see on DSL a security mechanism like
security.debian.org provides. Besides, my 486 can't boot from CD.
Doug.
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