Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:15:11AM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-07 > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:34:17PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > > Background: Installing Debian Testing with DVD 1 on a workstation. > > > > > > Why not install t

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-17 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-07 > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:34:17PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > Background: Installing Debian Testing with DVD 1 on a workstation. > > > > Why not install the following software by default? > > > Because Debian has a very minimal base

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-09 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > I do not see "Standard system" as a declared task option. Perhaps OP > meant "Desktop environment". No. He means "standard system" as in including all packages of priority standard or higher. Nothing to do with tasksel. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:42:51AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 22:34 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > > What is a "Standard system" in Tasksel? > > > According to this: > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apds02.html > > "Standard system" in tasksel takes up

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-09 Thread Michael M.
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 22:34 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > What is a "Standard system" in Tasksel? According to this: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apds02.html "Standard system" in tasksel takes up 365MB of disk space, whereas the minimal base installation will take 227MB. I

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:24:21PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > You are mixing up different topics here. > 1. Having a live CD for just a subset of architechtures > 2. Installer team needs man power > > They are related. But they are different. You are basically mixing up cause > and

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:45:48PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> >> Why not make the install disk also a live one? Ubuntu does this. >> >> >> > OK. So go use Ubuntu. >> > >> > Seriously, Ubuntu supports like two or three har

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Lale
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: [...] Why not make the install disk also a live one? Ubuntu does this. Its the other way around. The Debian Live project (http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/) is working to include the netinst installer on a separate partition of the same CD. It may already

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:45:48PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> Why not make the install disk also a live one? Ubuntu does this. > >> > > OK. So go use Ubuntu. > > > > Seriously, Ubuntu supports like two or three hardware architectures. > > Debian supp

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Why not make the install disk also a live one? Ubuntu does this. >> > OK. So go use Ubuntu. > > Seriously, Ubuntu supports like two or three hardware architectures. > Debian supports like 13. A live CD doesn't make sense on all of those > and probably isn't possib

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:12:21PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:34:17PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > Background: Installing Debian Testing with DVD 1 on a workstation. > > > > Why not install the following software by default? > > > Because Debian has a v

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:34:17PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Background: Installing Debian Testing with DVD 1 on a workstation. > > Why not install the following software by default? > Because Debian has a very minimal base install. You can install all of these packages yourself. I wi