On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:24:55PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> thank you doug, appreciate the responce, yes i want it with absolutely
> no x, the plan is to put it on an old box to force me to learn the
> commandline better (i use it as much as i can but i know that so much
> more could be done with it), besides there is a nostalgia factor of a
> terminal only box (it is what i cut my teeth on so to speak, though
> that was a 286 DOS box). the second thing is that it would be nice to
> see what all you could do without the need for a clumbsy GUI (well at
> least IMHO). the final point is that i am a little supprised that no
> one has made a debian based terminal only installation, but i guess
> being able to do it using the netinstall disk may explain that (though
> i would have thought that one would exist for those who still exist in
> the world of dialup
I am on slow dialup: 1.2 KB/s usual. Note that aptitude/apt is smart
enough to be able to pick up where a download is interrupted. Install
things in small selections so you're not waiting a week just to get
email setup.
Great, you really want to learn non-GUI.
Before you start, read the aptitude guide, the debian reference, and
the installation manual.
A good non-GUI setup:
Base setup (no tasks),
aptitude interactive,
options: don't treat recommends as dependancies.
go down the list of installed packages and mark anything that you don't
specifically want as 'A'utomaticly installed.
add ppp and pppconfig.
hit 'g' and see the list of packages to remove.
You don't need their configs so mark everything that is to be deleted as
Purge instead (select the section and mark it purge).
hit 'g' again to get a smaller system with ppp available.
set up ppp and get it working.
set up your /etc/apt/sources.list including security updates.
pon and run aptitude and do an update. Install the security updates.
Install exim4, mutt, mc, lynx, and an editor.
Install lots of docs: doc-linux-html (HOWTOs), kernel docs, and docs for
anything you install that has a separate doc package.
Enjoy.
Doug.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
