I've installed 1.3.1 on a small (40MB) partition on my laptop. I did the base install, exited immediately from dselect, and have used dpkg to install just the packages I feel I need to have a real OS available.
Configuration of man-db fails for lack of Long.pm (which is _not_ on my system, although there are many other *.pm files scattered about). This is what I've added to base: +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii bsdmainutils 3.2-0 More utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite. ii doc-debian 1.5-0 Debian Manual, FAQ and other documents ii doc-linux 97.03-1 Linux FAQ, HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs. ii gpm 1.10-6 General Purpose Mouse Interface ii groff 1.10-3 GNU troff text-formatting system. ii less 321-2 A file pager program, similar to more(1) ii libg++27 2.7.2.1-8 The GNU C++ libraries (ELF version). ii libgpm1 1.10-6 General Purpose Mouse Library ii lrzsz 0.12b-1 zmodem/ymodem/xmodem transfer package ii lynx 2.7.1-1 Text-mode WWW Browser iF man-db 2.3.10-38 Display the on-line manual. ii manpages 1.15-4 Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 manpages ii mc 3.5.17-1 Midnight Commander - A feature-rich full-scr ii minicom 1.75-2 Clone of the MS-DOS "Telix" communications p ii slang0.99.34 0.99.38-2 A C programming library for user interfaces Help??? Thanks. Cheers, Pann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .