Steven downing wrote:
> Ooops, my mistake. I have a similar setup and forgot that about 1 gb was saved for
> /home and /usr/local and swap.
<nod>
If you are dual booting, you may wish to explore storing /home on a
DOS/Windows partition. There are naming and speed issues, but this will
save disk and make your data available in both environments.
> Apologies to SuSe, it's not that bloated thankfully. Took a couple of hours though
>to
> sort through all the packages, sift out what wasn't needed, and then make sure
> dependecies were ok.
It's not actually possible to install all of Debian's packages at once
as some packages conflict with each other. Debian will not (unless you
force it to - not recommended) install conflicting packages. During
installation you are prompted to choose amongst ~20 "tasks" that are of
interest to you, and the relevant packages are installed. Even selecting
all of these only installs a small fraction of Debian's packages.
> Does Deb come with like 14 text editors, a raft of window managers and multiples of
>other
> packages, or is it a case of install the basic system and then install what else you
> want? Choice is good, but its not always easy to figure out if package A does the
>same
> as package B.
Umm, yes and yes.
$ apt-cache search wm | grep -i manager | wc -l
29
$
After manually culling things which aren't window managers (but whose
descriptions contain the words "window manager") from the above list, I
count more than 20 window managers included in Debian 2.2.
Which ones get installed depends upon which of the ~20 "tasks" you
selected during installation. If you did not select X-windows at all
during installation, then no window managers will be installed. If you
did, then I'm guessing that just one or two will be installed. I
actually don't know which window manager I'm using (fvwm95 at a guess),
the default choice is adequate for many users. If you want to use any of
the others, you'll have to ask for them yourself once installation is
complete. This is normally done with "apt-cache search packagename" and
"apt-get install packagename".
(There is a tool that allows you to interactively browse the entire
>4500 packages in Debian 2.2, select which ones you want (un)installed and then
>(un)install them, but its interface is so horrible (the man page desribes it as
>"confusing or even alarming to a new user") that I'm not going to tell you its name,
>lest you be tempted to try it. apt-cache and apt-get are much nicer.)
- Raz
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