On 07/13/2012 02:12 PM, Bill Barry 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. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug I would have to second this method. On my Debian Net Installs I uncheck everything except for base system and ssh server. Never had a reason to check disk space on a fresh install, but the above two selections and additional packages vim, samba, and swat installed after a reboot, I have a machine that is using 953Mb out of a 19Gb partition.
Joseph Hume F1 for HELP _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
