Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , s. keeling wrote: >Bob Proulx : >> Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: >> > I have a minimal Debian installation ... >> >> You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is >> happening right now on debian-devel: >>http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-06 Thread s. keeling
Bob Proulx : > Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > > I have a minimal Debian installation ... > > You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is > happening right now on debian-devel: > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/threads.html#00310 > >

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 01 nov 10, 20:45:49, gun_sm...@shellium.org wrote: > I agree, it has been a while for me as well. I only remember gcc > coming in > with build-essential on my end, which I always need. > (headers|make|gcc|etc) build-essential should be installed on a user system only as a dependency of dk

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-01 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:45:49 -0400 gun_sm...@shellium.org wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Debian's installer installs gcc? What "Base System" package are you > > referring to? It's been a while since I did an install, but I don't > > remember ever having

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-01 Thread gun_smoke
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Debian's installer installs gcc? What "Base System" package are you > referring to? It's been a while since I did an install, but I don't > remember ever having gcc installed during the install, and I see no > base package that depends

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-01 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:43:53 -0600 Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > There's "minimal" and then there's /minimal/. Debian's netinst does add > some things, and some of the additions can be a bit awkward. For one, > the "Base System" package actually adds quite a bit. > > Here'

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > I have a minimal Debian installation ... You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is happening right now on debian-devel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/threads.html#00310 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, Before reading following lines, I want to remind you that official Debian GNU/Linux installation is not optimized for constrained space requirements, where Puppy Linux is. Consider manual pages, lots of automation related scripts all around the place, a full featured libc (consider uclibc), do

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 10/30/2010 9:49 AM, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > I have a minimal Debian installation on a 2 GB VirtualBox hard drive. By > minimal, I mean the 150 MB Netinstall ISO without any of the packages (not > even the "base" system) I was given the option to install during the in

Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-10-30 Thread Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user
I have a minimal Debian installation on a 2 GB VirtualBox hard drive. By minimal, I mean the 150 MB Netinstall ISO without any of the packages (not even the "base" system) I was given the option to install during the initial installation process. And I haven't even added anything yet. When I