On 06/18/2020 10:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Mi, 17 iun 20, 06:51:18, Richard Owlett wrote:The purpose is to determine if I want to do future installs debootstrap. I attempted to use debootstrap a few years ago and understand it will take some time/effort to learn it.If you are going to start from scratch you should consider mmdebstrap instead (preferably the version in bullseye). It is mostly a drop-in replacement for deboostrap, but significantly faster and with some very useful additional features.
IIRC I had looked at it when experimenting with debootstrap and was confused by its use of chroot. My goal was creating a bootable system on a flash drive.
As to the learning curve, deboostrap itself is quite easy. The hard part is getting a usable system *after* the deboostrap step. At that point one gets to really appreciate the hard work that went behind debian-installer ;)
You are "preaching to the choir" ;/ That why I'm investigating making the installer do what I want. In a way, my underlying problem is Debian has done too good a jobin creating a system maximally useful to the broadest spectrum of users. They don't use my preferred programs for some functions and including functions I have no interest in. That results in unnecessary clutter and size.