[email protected] writes:
> A complete new install from the net downloads something like 3 gig of
> packages, a figure I consider to be to high (I am being very
> provincial here :-)).
You must install a lot more crap than me :-)
Showing off time! Here's what I downloaded:
# du -sh /var/tmp/live/var/cache/apt/archives/
70M /var/tmp/live/var/cache/apt/archives/
And here's the finished product:
# du -sch
/var/tmp/live/boot/{vmlinuz-*,initrd.img-*,filesystem.squashfs}
2.4M /var/tmp/live/boot/vmlinuz-3.8-1-amd64
8.1M /var/tmp/live/boot/initrd.img-3.8-1-amd64
40M /var/tmp/live/boot/filesystem.squashfs
50M total
That's wheezy with the kernel cherry-picked from unstable, configured to
work as an appliance, like your ADSL modem. And over 60% is the kernel;
with a localyesconfig kernel I get a total size of 23MiB.
A minimal install from debian-installer will be the cost of d-i and
udebs (up to about 120MiB) plus about another 100MiB or so for Essential
and Priority: standard packages. These days I think you'll need to boot
with priority=low ("expert") or possibly pass desktop=none, or it will
default to installing the GNOME environment (which is rather big).
I'm nearly 100% sure you can pass desktop=lxde or xfce to get a smaller
default install that still has a GUI, though last time I measured that,
it was still over 1GiB unpacked...
Let's run some numbers (starting from the 70MB base install above)...
(live)# apt-get install xorg task-xfce-desktop --no-install-recommends <<<
no | grep -A1 Need.to.get
Need to get 120 MB of archives.
After this operation, 360 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(live)# apt-get install xorg task-xfce-desktop --install-recommends <<< no
| grep -A1 Need.to.get
Need to get 609 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1922 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Making a little table,
w/recommends wo/recommends
dl/install dl/install
task-lxde-desktop 540/1666 MB 104/305 MB
task-xfce-desktop 609/1922 MB 120/360 MB
task-gnome-desktop 852/2584 MB 373/1120 MB
task-kde-desktop 866/2478 MB 352/989 MB
A GUI base install in the worst case should be around 1GiB to download
and nearly 3GiB of desktop, by my reckoning. I grant you that's still
pretty horrible, especially if you're intending to do >>1.
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