On Sun 14 Jan 2018 at 17:42:57 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > David composed on 2018-01-14 17:54 (UTC): > > > I know there is a version of Rasbian called Stretch Lite. > > > Is there a version of Debian to run headless without the excess clutter > > of office etc? > > > I've tried removing the bits I don't need, but made an awful mess of it, > > better not to load it in the first place. > > Start the installer with the following included on the boot cmdline: > > tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false > > All my own installations start that way, normally as a part of network > installation, downloading little in advance of starting the installation: > > https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
Note that base-installer/install-recommends=false only kicks in after the base system is installed. Base files are installed with debootstrap, which does not install Recommends:. I'm unsure much is really saved here as the standard packages tend not to have a reliance on recommended packages. -- Brian.
