Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer
Richard Owlett composed on 2021-07-01 08:00 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Richard Owlett composed on 2021-06-30 08:43 (UTC-0500):
>>> I don't recall just when I
>>> did it but I had tried including "install-recommends=false" somewhere in
>>> the command line. It failed.
>> I start most installations with Grub. Nearly always I start with a minimal
>> installation. On the linu lines in these files is:
>> base-installer/install-recommends=false
> I tried that this morning.
> I did *NOT* get the desired result.
> I got all the "recommended" packages of MATE Desktop Environment.
> Just as if I hadn't specified otherwise on the installer command line :{
Dunno what to tell you. Maybe that's because I always include also
tasks=standard
I only add a desktop after first boot into the fresh minimal installation.
What other command line options did you use?
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