On 06/18/2020 10:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Mi, 17 iun 20, 06:51:18, Richard Owlett wrote:
The purpose is to determine if I want to do future installs debootstrap.
I attempted to use debootstrap a few years ago and understand it will take
some time/effort to learn it.
If you are going to start from scratch you should consider mmdebstrap
instead (preferably the version in bullseye). It is mostly a drop-in
replacement for deboostrap, but significantly faster and with some very
useful additional features.
IIRC I had looked at it when experimenting with debootstrap and was
confused by its use of chroot. My goal was creating a bootable system on
a flash drive.
As to the learning curve, deboostrap itself is quite easy. The hard part
is getting a usable system *after* the deboostrap step.
At that point one gets to really appreciate the hard work that went
behind debian-installer ;)
You are "preaching to the choir" ;/
That why I'm investigating making the installer do what I want.
In a way, my underlying problem is Debian has done too good a job
in creating a system maximally useful to the broadest spectrum of users.
They don't use my preferred programs for some functions and including
functions I have no interest in. That results in unnecessary clutter and
size.
