On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:59:40PM -0000, nneff wrote: > > 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.
Maybe the new Debian is different (I hear Etch is now a graphical install rather than the former text install; I doubt it's like Ubuntu though, whose graphical installer asks almost no questions), but in the past, when you installed Debian, you'd have several options and one of them is a manual install where you specifically choose the packages you want. In the past, for me, I preferred a bare mininum install then apt-get'ed what I wanted, including X, gdm, etc. sean
