Dylan (and Henry, for the previous message), A _crippled_ net install sounds like exactly what I need.
I'll try to avoid dselect altogether and just apt-get exactly what I want (and of course, the required dependancies). Thanks! Dave On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > i like the minimal install CDs found here: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > i boot the machine with the CD, install the base system, then reboot and > use tasksel to install the barebones servers and whatnot... then from > there you are just an 'apt-get install' away from anything else that you > might need. > > and if you would like to do it on PPC hardware, here are some of my notes: > http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/ > > > good luck! > > dylan > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 07:19:49PM -0700, David Margolis wrote: > > [...] > >> Here's my question: What's the easiest way to install a very-barebones > >> Debian? The thing I've always really liked about Slackware is > >> that it makes no assumptions whatsover about the kind of installation > >> you'd like to do, so while certainly being less user-friendly, the > >> intaller allows you to really whittle your system to a few hundred megs > >> of > >> essentials (that's with X and KDE and quite a few other goodies) as > >> opposed to a few gigs of libraries and dependancies for redundant > >> programs > >> I'll never use. > > > > This is certainly possible on Debian. After you install using floppies or > > CD-ROM and boot the newly installed system, you will be prompted to select > > tasks and to run dselect. If you decline to do either then you may run > > apt-get install manually for whatever specific packages you wants. Of > > course, > > dependancies must be met, but you will still only end up with those extra > > packages that are needed to support the ones you request. > > > > The package catalog at http:/;/packages.debian.org is you friend. > > > > -- > > Henry House > > The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. > > See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: > > <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
