On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 12:53 +0000, Brian wrote: > On Sun 14 Jan 2018 at 17:42:57 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > > David composed on 2018-01-14 17:54 (UTC): > > > > > I know there is a version of Rasbian called Stretch Lite. > > > > > Is there a version of Debian to run headless without the excess clutter > > > of office etc? > > > > > I've tried removing the bits I don't need, but made an awful mess of it, > > > better not to load it in the first place. > > > > Start the installer with the following included on the boot cmdline: > > > > tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false > > > > All my own installations start that way, normally as a part of network > > installation, downloading little in advance of starting the installation: > > > > https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > Note that base-installer/install-recommends=false only kicks in > after the base system is installed. Base files are installed with > debootstrap, which does not install Recommends:. I'm unsure much > is really saved here as the standard packages tend not to have a > reliance on recommended packages. > Many thanks for all the suggestions, I've got a thin client to load with Debian, I'll try them out.
Previous thin clients I've loaded with Debian 7 due to Debian 8 being too bloated for these minimal machines, and another with windoze XP, and I managed to get the XP one to use the internal flash drive, the others I used an SSD. All thin clients along with the Pi's I use run headless. David.
