Sean Burns wrote: > 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.
I concur with Sean. I do the same with every distro I've used, including FreeBSD, Fedora, and Ubuntu: install the server version and then ports/yum/apt-get what I need, e.g. apt-get install ubuntu-desktop. Regards, - Robert
