[PLUG] a LEAN linux using apt-get or yum

Ronald Chmara ronabop at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 21:46:37 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
>> Normal versions of Debian and Ubuntu fail both ways.
>> Comments?
> I don't know which normal versions you are talking about, but I always
> install Debian using netinst.
> http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
> At some point during the installation it asks you which type of system
> you are installing and you just uncheck everything.
> What you get is a very small installation that will boot to a console.
> >From there you can install things as you need them.
^^^^^^^^^
This. You can actually do similar things with other distributions, but
basically, they make it *easy* to have tons of software, but it's
quite possible to install very, very, little.

-Ronabop



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