> when installing, if you really want to keep it slim and trim, don't > even choose the desktop environment.
But I want a desktop environment. I just don't want the other 480 MB of stuff that my Sarge install downloaded when I installed Sarge. The reason I ask is because when I installed Sarge, I only chose "Desktop Environment" from "Phase 3" of the Bworks Wiki:http://bworksshop.pbwiki.com/Installing%20Debian%20Sarge However, the install took about 1/2 hours over a DSL connection, the VM size was 2GB. All I want to do is do a base install (with GUI/Desktop), and see if I can run newest KTurtle/edutainment package. Any suggestions? Is there some other option on the installation that I can choose which will ixnay the > 400 MB of extra stuff that is downloaded, or is that Debian's signature? I'll google some ideas and post anything that I found. --- In [email protected], Theresa Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > -- > *** Propositions arrived at purely by logical > means are completely empty as regards > reality. - Albert Einstein *** >
