Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , s. keeling wrote: >Bob Proulx : >> Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: >> > I have a minimal Debian installation ... >> >> You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is >> happening right now on debian-devel: >>

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-06 Thread s. keeling
Bob Proulx : > Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > > I have a minimal Debian installation ... > > You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is > happening right now on debian-devel: > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/20

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 01 nov 10, 20:45:49, gun_sm...@shellium.org wrote: > I agree, it has been a while for me as well. I only remember gcc > coming in > with build-essential on my end, which I always need. > (headers|make|gcc|etc) build-essential should be installed on a user system only as a dependency of dk

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-01 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:45:49 -0400 gun_sm...@shellium.org wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Debian's installer installs gcc? What "Base System" package are you > > referring to? It's been a while since I did an install, but I don't > > remember ever having

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-01 Thread gun_smoke
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Debian's installer installs gcc? What "Base System" package are you > referring to? It's been a while since I did an install, but I don't > remember ever having gcc installed during the install, and I see no > base package that depends

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-01 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:43:53 -0600 Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > There's "minimal" and then there's /minimal/. Debian's netinst does add > some things, and some of the additions can be a bit awkward. For one, > the "Base System" package actually adds quite a bit. > > Here'

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > I have a minimal Debian installation ... You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is happening right now on debian-devel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/threads.html#00310 http://lists.debian.org/deb

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Volkan YAZICI
), dozens of optional modules added for flexibility to "all" userbase. (E.g. It is funny that gnupg depends on libusb, etc.) On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, "Jason Hsu" writes: > I have a minimal Debian installation on a 2 GB VirtualBox hard drive. > By minimal, I mean the 150 MB Net

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 10/30/2010 9:49 AM, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > I have a minimal Debian installation on a 2 GB VirtualBox hard drive. By > minimal, I mean the 150 MB Netinstall ISO without any of the packages (not > even the "base" system) I was given the option to

Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user
I have a minimal Debian installation on a 2 GB VirtualBox hard drive. By minimal, I mean the 150 MB Netinstall ISO without any of the packages (not even the "base" system) I was given the option to install during the initial installation process. And I haven't even added anythi

minimal Debian installation

2001-01-29 Thread Ralf Müller
Hello, Installing Debian on many Systems from time to time gets me into troble. If I want to install a minimal system while using a kernel compiled by me, the standard Debian installation procedure often fails. Does anyone know the install procedure od Debian? Because I want to make the following