Andrew M.A. Cater writes:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 08:39:14AM +0000, Joseph wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking for the smallest full installer possible with just xfce (CD > installer for example < 700MB), that works without internet, non netinst. > I know this existed for 10.4, I still have: > > "debian-10.4.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso" which is 640 MB
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No, I'm sorry, it no longer does. The XFCE single CD got too large to fit on a single 640/700 CD dnd the team that releases the CD/DVD etc. images
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The netinst will work well to install any desktop: if you happen to be disconnected from any network, DVD1 should well work (though you might conceivably need DVD2 or DVD3 for some packages.) If that's still inconvenient, get someone with jigdo to produce the 16G image meant for USB sticks or the Blu-Ray sizes which can also be written directly to USB and will boot.
[...]I am not sure if it qualifies for a "full installer", but the live images allow the installation of Debian with specified Desktop environment. For XFCE, the image would be as follows:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-xfce.iso
With 2.3G it is, however, much larger than a single CD although it still
fits a cheap 4G USB pendrive. It might thus be easier to use than a 16G
image or handling multiple installation DVDs.
HTH Linux-Fan ΓΆΓΆ
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