[Nigel Barker] > Hi Petter Hi.
> I brought a couple of dell minis home, but they are too small (8G ssd) > for a normal install of either standalone or roaming. Then in expert > install there are so many permutations in tasksel. (Like both laptop > and debian-edu laptop, or only one or the other? etc. ) that so far I > haven't hit on a good combination. I tried only laptop and graphical > DE, which came in under 2G (lxde). So I ran tasksel again (can't > remember which, but probably standalone or roaming) but it filled the > drive before completion and then aptitude and dpkg wouldn't work > anymore without any free space. So overall this is pretty useless > testing. Right. I had a look at the minimum (ignoring swap which depend on memory size), and this is the list. The sizes are in megabyte: debianedusvn/src/debian-edu-install$ make minimum-diskreq Minimum disk requirements, in MiB: lib/partman/recipes-doc/particulator.sh lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-powermac_newworld/90edumain 2209 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-powermac_newworld/91edumain+ltsp 24737 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-powermac_newworld/92edumain+ws 13921 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-powermac_newworld/94edultsp 21473 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-powermac_newworld/96eduwork 14185 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-powermac_newworld/97minimal 1313 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-powermac_newworld/98edustandalone 13161 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-prep/90edumain 2216 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-prep/91edumain+ltsp 24744 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-prep/92edumain+ws 13928 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-prep/94edultsp 21480 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-prep/96eduwork 14192 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-prep/97minimal 1320 lib/partman/recipes-powerpc-prep/98edustandalone 13168 lib/partman/recipes/90edumain 2208 lib/partman/recipes/91edumain+ltsp 24736 lib/partman/recipes/92edumain+ws 13920 lib/partman/recipes/94edultsp 21472 lib/partman/recipes/96eduwork 14184 lib/partman/recipes/97minimal 1312 lib/partman/recipes/98edustandalone 13160 debianedusvn/src/debian-edu-install$ So a standalone need the size of 98edustandalone, which is around 13 GiB. > However, I can say for sure that two problems from yesterday do not > exist. No to auto partitioning is respected, and iceweasel runs only > once. I think yesterday I was testing in an alternate reality. I would > swear in court that I logged out and in and iceweasel launched again. > Sorry to give false reports. Good to hear. > I notice that the local user created during install disappears by the > end of it, even on standalone. You have to go to a tty and recreate > the local user to be able to log in. Obviously this is a bit much for > kids taking an install CD home. This is very strange. Can you publish the installation logs ( /var/log/installer/ ) for us to have a look what happened? Btw, do you know anyone capable of translating the web page and debconf questions to Japanese? Would be nice to have Japanese as an option. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
