Richard Owlett wrote: > I've browsed through debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.list. It appears to > contains files of unlikely interest to me (C compiler and header > files, firewire, traceroute, etc).
Just because it is available on the cdrom does not mean that it will be installed. What is installed will depend upon what options you select at installation time. If you use raid or lvm then those will be installed. If you select X11 then it will be installed. If you don't then they won't. > I also did not find any description of how fine the user control of > packages to be downloaded is. I just now did a pristine installation into a VM and selected what I think to be the minimum installation possible. It installed 147 packages in total and consumed 442M of disk resulting in a fairly small but useful system. I include the full list of packages that were installed below. After having arrived at that configuration it is possible to remove some of those packages for an even smaller system. I didn't try but there are some good candidates that I would attack if I were paring the system down to the minimum. And almost certainly other packages would want to be installed. This is completely within your control. You can install or remove as much or as little as you wish. Go crazy! Configure it as you wish. Bob acpi acpid acpi-support-base adduser apt aptitude apt-utils base-files base-passwd bash bsdmainutils bsdutils busybox console-tools coreutils cpio cron dash debconf debconf-i18n debian-archive-keyring debianutils diffutils discover discover-data dmidecode dmsetup dpkg e2fslibs e2fsprogs findutils gcc-4.4-base gettext-base gnupg gpgv grep groff-base grub-common grub-pc gzip hostname ifupdown info initramfs-tools initscripts insserv installation-report install-info iproute iptables iputils-ping isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common klibc-utils laptop-detect libacl1 libattr1 libblkid1 libboost-iostreams1.42.0 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc-bin libcomerr2 libconsole libcwidget3 libdb4.8 libdevmapper1.02.1 libdiscover2 libept1 libexpat1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libgdbm3 libklibc liblocale-gettext-perl liblzma2 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnewt0.52 libnfnetlink0 libpam0g libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpci3 libpopt0 libreadline6 libselinux1 libsepol1 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libslang2 libsqlite3-0 libss2 libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libudev0 libusb-0.1-4 libuuid1 libuuid-perl libxapian22 linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 linux-image-2.6-amd64 locales login logrotate lsb-base man-db manpages mawk module-init-tools mount nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin netbase netcat-traditional net-tools os-prober passwd pciutils perl-base procps readline-common rsyslog sed sensible-utils sysvinit sysvinit-utils sysv-rc tar tasksel tasksel-data traceroute tzdata ucf udev usbutils util-linux vim-common vim-tiny wget whiptail xz-utils zlib1g
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