Not a derivative suggestion but maybe this will help. When you start the installer if you choose the Expert installation (I believe under advanced section) or if you press the Escape key and type expert at the boot prompt you can get a very minimal system installed although there will be a few more questions that you have to answer along the way.
The trick is when you get to the package selection screen to uncheck everything except for Standard System which will give you only a basic system with no gui. -- David On Sun, 2020-06-28 at 08:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I like Debian very much. > However its default installer coerces an undesirable collection of > "must > have" applications. > > I want a MATE desktop with a very sparse selection of apps installed > by > default. I've discovered that the installer is designed *NOT TO* > implement an equivalent of apt-get's "no-install-recommends". > > I want a system that allows the use of the standard Debian > repository > but whose installer does not forcibly coerce the installation of > undesired apps. > > Suggestions? > > TIA > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
