On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:44 +0000, nneff wrote:
> Question: Does anyone Can I tell the installer not to download
> friggin' 500 MB of install packages, or is that just Debian's "niche"?
Unless Debian has significantly changed things, you should be able to
download a network install image, which should be very small. Then,
when installing, if you really want to keep it slim and trim, don't even
choose the desktop environment. This will give you a Debian system sans
GUI (so you can choose and install your own). Or does that not answer
your question?
Now here is a question not just for you but for the whole group: who
wants to take on doing a clean Debian "etch" install on a minimum spec
machine? That is, PIII 500MHz or better, 128MB RAM, 4-6GB hard drive?
It would also be nice to test it out, to see if KDE still performs
nicely on the newer version with 128 RAM, and to test how well Gnome
does under the same constraints. Because if I'm not mistaken, won't
this new version allow us to use the updated KTurtle?
t.
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