On Friday 18 October 2002 03:46 pm, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: > > Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like > > Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian > > install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we > > need. > > Towards the end of the Debian installation process, when you're asked > whether you want to run tasksel or dselect, you can choose dselect and > exit it before installing any packages. If you do that, you're left > with a really minimal install. You might be able to base your work on > this. > > noah
This is what I do as well. On a 1 GB / partition Debian only takes up about 15% of the partition (when installed in this manner) and hardly anything is installed. I have to apt-get install less... now that's what I call minimal.
