[vox-tech] minimalist debian?

[Henry House]

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On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 07:19:49PM -0700, David Margolis wrote:
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> Here's my question: What's the easiest way to install a very-barebones
> Debian?  The thing I've always really liked about Slackware is
> that it makes no assumptions whatsover about the kind of installation
> you'd like to do, so while certainly being less user-friendly, the
> intaller allows you to really whittle your system to a few hundred megs of
> essentials (that's with X and KDE and quite a few other goodies) as
> opposed to a few gigs of libraries and dependancies for redundant programs
> I'll never use.

This is certainly possible on Debian. After you install using floppies or
CD-ROM and boot the newly installed system, you will be prompted to select
tasks and to run dselect. If you decline to do either then you may run
apt-get install manually for whatever specific packages you wants. Of cours=
e,
dependancies must be met, but you will still only end up with those extra
packages that are needed to support the ones you request.

The package catalog at http:/;/packages.debian.org is you friend.

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