Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Pepper Orlando
Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort of problems that Michael did when trying to remove gcc-3.3-base. My goal is to

minimal installation questions

2004-09-18 Thread Pepper Orlando
Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very minimal install of Debian on a CompactFlash card interfaced via an IDE-to-CF a