DLloyd;230655 Wrote: > Yes, thank you very much Cody, some virtual beer for you ! > > So far I have downloaded and burned the DVD iso images for Debian etch, > so now I'm just waiting for the hardware to arrive.... > > As far as the partitioning of the drive, I'm thinking of using 250 MB > for /boot, 2 GB for the Linux swap (the same as the amount of RAM), and > then the remainder as one large ext3 formatted partition for /var, > /usr, /tmp, and /home. > > The Samba, Perl, APCUPSD, and also the Bastille packages seem to be > bundled with Debian.
Woah! You are not one to do things halfway, are you? ;) For future reference, one can always download the net install image, which is much smaller and gets your system kickstarted to the point where it can download the rest of what you need from the internet. What I usually do is get a minimal base system set up, install ssh, and then do the rest remotely from a terminal. During setup, you will have the opportunity to choose what kind of box you are building. I usually just deselect all of the choices to get the smallest install. Of course, you may want to do a desktop install just to play around with it. You can always revert or re-install if you want. The Wiki has instructions for getting the Debian Slimserver packages. The book "Running Linux" used to be on my desktop all of the time (until I passed it on to a friend). Get a copy. Cody -- reverber ------------------------------------------------------------------------ reverber's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38519 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
