[vox-tech] Re: vox-tech digest, Vol 1 #878 - 4 msgs

[David Siedband]

Hi Dave,

Looks like you got the info you needed for the Debian install.  As far 
as a BSD, If you like the Slackware ground-up approach to building a 
system I would recommend checking out FreeBSD.  One of the things I 
really like about Debian is how apt-get handles all the dependencies 
for you.  The FreeBSD ports tree gives you the same functionality.  I 
have install media for 4.7 and 5.1 if you want to install them.
--
Dave





On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 12:00 PM, 
vox-tech-request@lists.lugod.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:19:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Margolis <margolid@ecs.csus.edu>
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> Subject: [vox-tech] minimalist debian?
> Reply-To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a Slackware user and I came across an exrtra machine that I thought
> I'd use to play around with other distros and/or one of the BSDs.  
> Debian came
> to mind as a good place to go next for two reasons:
>
> 1. I've been playing around with Fink on an OS X machine at work, and 
> that
> program has really turned me on to the idea of apt-get and it's family
> members.
>
> 2. I like to keep myself as well-rounded as possible and I've done 
> enough
> playing around with RedHat, Mandrake, and their brothers, so Debian 
> seems
> like the other major _family_ of distro that I'd like to know more 
> about.
>
> 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.
>
> I've been through the Debian installer a few times (though not for a 
> year
> or two) and I just remember being kind of an observer as dselect did 
> its
> work installing the programs assosiated with a chosen configuration.
> Since there seems to be plenty of Debian heads on this list, I
> thought maybe someone could throw down a quick 1, 2, 3 or even point 
> me to
> a URL about how to install the least amount of Debian possible and 
> then use
> apt-get to install whatever I feel like later.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>