On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: >> Normal versions of Debian and Ubuntu fail both ways. >> Comments? > I don't know which normal versions you are talking about, but I always > install Debian using netinst. > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > At some point during the installation it asks you which type of system > you are installing and you just uncheck everything. > What you get is a very small installation that will boot to a console. > >From there you can install things as you need them. ^^^^^^^^^ This. You can actually do similar things with other distributions, but basically, they make it *easy* to have tons of software, but it's quite possible to install very, very, little.
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