On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:12:28 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote:
(...) >> Yes, I think I know what you want to get but doing so from Debian >> installer is a bit tricky... you can cherry-pick the packages (or meta- >> packages) that have to be installed by means of preseeding (also >> documented in the above mentioned guide, chapter "B.2. Using >> preseeding") but is not an easy task. >> >> >> > Me? Do things in convoluted manner? > Teachers and bosses have commented on that for >50 years ;} :-D > In some of my reading, I have come across bits of the history of the > "Embedded Debian Project". Though reading more on that project is > unlikely to explicitly answer the question I posed, much of their work > will be useful to me. They were motivated physical system constraints. I > find the results esthetically satisfying. I'm sure you'd enjoy the concept of the openSUSE Studio that allows you to create a customized installation ISO image by selecting only the packages you want to be there and automatically solving the package dependencies :-) For Debian there were a different set of options to create a personalized CD image (some of them listed here²) but the usual way to get an installation with the small amount of packages is by loading the netinst image, select the expert installer and then choose only the base system to be installed from the task selector. Once the system is up and running (and package managers can deal with package dependencies), proceed with the installation of the wanted applications you want to be there. ¹http://susestudio.com/ ²http://wiki.debian.org/DebianCustomCD/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jski79$68h$1...@dough.gmane.org
