On Saturday 13 October 2001 09:58, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Hey, this question has been asked before, and no one gave imo > a really good answer. What is the minimum installation debs? There > are two schools of thought. First, the packages listed in > basecont.txt in the disks-<platform> contained in the base file. The > other is that once you reboot during installation, select advanced > setup, enter dselect, escape out, and take what's given. One might > think that they would be the same. > So, I took the liberty of doing a fresh install with disk 1 > of the 2.2r3 dist. At the prompt to choose simple/advanced, I > switched consoles and did a 'dpkg -l > dpkg_pre.txt', then I entered > dpkg, hit escape, installed the packages, and then did a 'dpkg -l > > dpkg_post.txt'! I also did a df -k and a df -l. > Well, it turns out that there are 79 packages in the base > dist, but once you go in and out of dselect, you end up with 169 > packages. It takes up about 220M of space. > Attached is a tar.gz file that has the details. By the way, > if you are planning to make CD-ROM's with the base packages, I > suggest installing apt-move and rsync into a base installation. Then > you can do an 'apt-move sync' that will fetch all the gory details > and create a mirror of the packages installed in your base system. > It does all the dirty work with the packages files, etc.
I believe the minimum is zero (no debs). -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
