On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:12:20AM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > The default installation of Debian, without X, is about 600-800 Megabytes. > I'm looking for a debian compatible distribution (so that I'll be able to > use debian's security updates, and enjoy the breadth of packages etc) which > will be small and will contain only the bare minimum for a functional server > (say, sshd and busybox). I wish it'll be as small as possible (say, ~100Mb).
The Debian packages are sorted by "priorites": http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities By default, all the "standard" packages are installed. If you want to override the package selection at install time, the standard way to do that is using preseeding: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apb.html.en http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en#preseed-pkgsel That said, replacing coreusitls with busybox will not happen any time soon in the main Debian release. There are some guys actively trying to do similar things, and they tend to hang around http://emdebian.org . For instance, http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best [email protected] | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
