To get a feel for this, I made up what seemed to be a comfortable working Debian and went through the excercise of creating it from a minimum set of packages. The working Debian was just on 40 Mb and it needed only 8 Mb of packages to produce this, as most files came from base1_3.tgz.
In other words the space required in round figures on a cdrom is 12 Mb for the disk-i386 set plus 8Mb for my selection of packages, or 20 Mb. So with 98 Mb available the is 78 Mb free to add other things. I created a new tree which was a partial copy of bo, being just the selected packages and I used the bo Packages.gz file as is. dpkg was quite happy with this. The only trick is to unselect all except the required packages before using dpkg --set-selections. Here is the output of my dpkg --get-selections:- adduser install ae install base-files install base-passwd install bash install bsdmainutils install bsdutils install cpp install cron install debianutils install dialog install diff install dpkg install dpkg-ftp install e2fsprogs install ed install fileutils install findutils install getty install gpm install grep install groff install gzip install hostname install isapnptools install kbd install ldso install libc5 install libdb1 install libg++27 install libgdbm1 install libnet install libreadline2 install lilo install login install lpr install mailx install makedev install man-db install manpages install mawk install mbr install mime-support install modconf install modutils install mount install ncurses-base install ncurses-bin install ncurses3.0 install netbase install netstd install nvi install passwd install perl install ppp install procps install sed install setserial install shellutils install smail install sysklogd install syslinux install sysvinit install tar install textutils install timezone install update install util-linux install =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 modem +61 8 9364-9832 32S, 116E =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
