Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 12:40:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> 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
Extremely unlikely. In fact, impossible.
> I only add a desktop after first boot into the fresh minimal installation.
This isn't what Richard Owlet or I are doing. We are not on the same page.
> What other command line options did you use?
Irrelelevant.
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Brian.
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