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>On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A.
>Tutty wrote:
>
>> After you reboot and get a prompt, use aptitude
>and install what you
>> want: exim4 and mutt for mail, lynx and perhaps
>links2 (does
>> javascript), and of course mc (midnight
>commander). Finish off with
>> your editor-of-choice (I use vim).
>>
>> If you specifically don't want any X, I suggest
>strongly that you use
>> aptitude interactively so that you can go back and
>forth if you
> choose
>> something that wants to drag in X.
>
>The other thing I forgot to suggest is that you may
>find packages
>installed as part of base that you don't want
>either. I find I can
> pare
>base down quite a bit.
>
>Doug.
thank you doug, appreciate the responce, yes i want it
with absolutely no x, the plan is to put it on an old
box to force me to learn the commandline better (i use
it as much as i can but i know that so much more could
be done with it), besides there is a nostalgia factor
of a terminal only box (it is what i cut my teeth on
so to speak, though that was a 286 DOS box). the
second thing is that it would be nice to see what all
you could do without the need for a clumbsy GUI (well
at least IMHO). the final point is that i am a little
supprised that no one has made a debian based terminal
only installation, but i guess being able to do it
using the netinstall disk may explain that (though i
would have thought that one would exist for those who
still exist in the world of dialup
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
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