On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:05:08PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 01:30:36PM -0600, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > When I do the "Install" step, it always wants to install a
> > whole bunch of packages (71 to be exact) including such
> > disk-hogs as emacs.
>
> It is installing pac
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 11:25:50AM -0800, Stephen W. Juranich wrote:
> I'm not sure what dselect is doing, perhaps it is installing
> 'suggested' packages as well as required ones.
dselect never does that - it'll show them to you, but not select them by
default - although it does select recommende
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 01:30:36PM -0600, Grant Edwards wrote:
> When I do the "Install" step, it always wants to install a
> whole bunch of packages (71 to be exact) including such
> disk-hogs as emacs.
It is installing packages marked as 'Priority: standard' and above. If
you cancel all the auto
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 11:25:50AM -0800, Stephen W. Juranich wrote:
> > I log in as root, and run dselect. I scroll through the
> > packages selection list without changing anything.
>
> You should probably use apt-get instead of dselect. Much less
> agony.
Thanks -- I think I'm going to inst
> I log in as root, and run dselect. I scroll through the
> packages selection list without changing anything.
You should probably use apt-get instead of dselect. Much less agony.
> I never selected any of those packages for installation. Why
> does dselect want to install them?
I'm not sure
I'm evaluating Debian as the possible Linux distro to ship on a
SBC/PC104 product. So, I've been trying to install 2.2r5 on an
old 486 machine with 28M of RAM and 265M of disk space. It's
not going well...
I do rescue/boot/drivers from floppies, then base via network.
I add packages for the "C
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