Re: minimal installation

Dan Norton composed on 2018-05-12 17:47 (UTC-0400): > Now, I want to update and upgrade and start to slowly add packages, but > my network ignorance is getting in the way. > Tried to run "/sbin/ifconfig -a" but ifconfig is not found. Deprecated over a decade ago, and finally dropped from basic

Re: minimal installation

"Install" item in the netinst menu, I can change: > > > > > > > > linux /install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet > > > > > > > > ...to this, all on one line: > > > > > > > > linux /install.amd/vmlinuz vg

Re: minimal installation

On Mon 07 May 2018 at 19:53:51 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2018-05-07 23:22 (UTC+0100): > > > On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:04:47 -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > > >> On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > > >> linux /install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- tasks=standard >

Re: minimal installation

Brian composed on 2018-05-07 23:22 (UTC+0100): > On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:04:47 -0400, Dan Norton wrote: >> On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: >> linux /install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- tasks=standard >> base-installer/install-recommends=false >> Is that going to result

Re: minimal installation

On Mon, 7 May 2018 18:24:04 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > Dan Norton composed on 2018-05-07 18:04 (UTC-0400): > > > On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > > >> IME, virtually any distro's installation media when its presence > >> first appears on screen

Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9)

On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:37:16 -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2018 23:22:46 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:04:47 -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > >

Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9)

On Mon, 7 May 2018 23:22:46 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:04:47 -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > > jpff composed on 2018-05-07 12:34 (UTC+0100): > > > > > > > Felix

Re: minimal installation

Dan Norton composed on 2018-05-07 18:04 (UTC-0400): > On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: >> IME, virtually any distro's installation media when its presence >> first appears on screen allows for some method of appending >> parameters to the kernel cmdline > That "kernel

Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9)

On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:04:47 -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 > Felix Miata wrote: > > > jpff composed on 2018-05-07 12:34 (UTC+0100): > > > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > >> My Debian installations are all net installs that include > >

Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9)

On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:42:17 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > jpff composed on 2018-05-07 12:34 (UTC+0100): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> My Debian installations are all net installs that include > > >>tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false > > >>

Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9)

Dan Norton composed on 2018-05-07 17:47 (UTC-0400): > Felix wrote: > "My Debian installations are all net installs that include > tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false > on the kernel cmdline." > What's the kernel here? The one for the installer, right? We need to >

Re: minimal installation (was: A long rant on Debian 9)

jpff composed on 2018-05-07 12:34 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> My Debian installations are all net installs that include >> tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false >> on the kernel cmdline. I get nothing I don't need installed that way. Xorg >> and >> whatever else

Re: minimal installation (was: Anybody know why...)

Tim McDonough composed on 2015-10-31 16:22 (UTC-0500): > Perhaps there is a way to do this with a CD/DVD boot parameter and I'm > not aware of it... I wish there was a way to be presented with a more > complete list of options at install time. On some installations with > small disks I really

Re: minimal installation questions

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:42:40PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote: Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very minimal

Re: minimal installation questions

Pepper Orlando wrote: Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very minimal install of Debian on a CompactFlash card

Re: minimal installation questions

1024x768, it seems to be fast enough). Even doing just this seems to take up about 235 MB according to df -h. I'm guessing there's far more installed than I really need. Thanks in advance for any help with this matter. In spite of the rant you just got about how ultra-minimal the basic net

Re: minimal installation questions

Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort of problems that Michael did when trying to remove gcc-3.3-base. My goal is to

Re: minimal installation questions

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:42:13 -0500, Pepper Orlando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort

Re: minimal installation questions

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:42:13PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote: Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort of

minimal installation questions

Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very minimal install of Debian on a CompactFlash card interfaced via an IDE-to-CF

Re: minimal installation questions

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:42:40PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote: Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very minimal

Re: minimal installation [fixed]

actually, and thank you all for your help, i found a guy willing to turn his minimal floppy distro into a compact floppy installation.. so thanks again for the help you offerred,i appreciate it i really do, but i think this problem is fixed later, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: minimal installation [fixed]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:46:04 -0400, Ashley Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: actually, and thank you all for your help, i found a guy willing to turn his minimal floppy distro into a compact floppy installation.. ..cool, url? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind

minimal installation

hello friends, i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to install linux on something else. the system is a compaq contura 430cx, it has a floppy drive ONLY. no cd-rom, no network (it had a pcmcia modem

Re: minimal installation

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Ashley Graham wrote: hello friends, i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to install linux on something else. the system is a compaq contura 430cx, it

Re: minimal installation

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 01:32:29 +0200, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Ashley Graham wrote: hello friends, i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a friend; it is rather old, but i

Re: minimal installation

on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Ashley Graham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hello friends, i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to install linux on something else. Since online information

minimal installation

Hi all :-) I'd like to install Debian on an old 486 machine which only has a little 500 MB HDD. Is it possible to install a really _minimal_ system from debian disk and CD's (e.g. a preformed profile), which runs only the services that are really needed and then can be upgraded ? I tried it

Re: minimal installation

Some what recently, Friedemann Schorer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about minimal installation :) Hi all :-) :) I'd like to install Debian on an old 486 machine which only has a :) little 500 MB HDD. Is it possible to install a really _minimal_ :) system from debian disk and CD's (e.g