Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:42:13PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote: > Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. > > I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to > remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort of > pr

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:42:13 -0500, Pepper Orlando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. > > I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to > remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Pepper Orlando
Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening. I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort of problems that Michael did when trying to remove gcc-3.3-base. My goal is to

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Silvan
> 1024x768, it seems to be fast enough). Even doing just this seems to take > up about 235 MB according to df -h. I'm guessing there's far more installed > than I really need. > > Thanks in advance for any help with this matter. In spite of the rant you just got about how ultra-minimal the basic

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Joris Huizer
Pepper Orlando wrote: Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very minimal install of Debian on a CompactFlash card interfac

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:42:40PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. > Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing > machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very > minimal

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:42:40PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. > Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing > machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very > minimal

minimal installation questions

2004-09-18 Thread Pepper Orlando
Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat. Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a very minimal install of Debian on a CompactFlash card interfaced via an IDE-to-CF a