[ale] debian installer

Preston preston.lists at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 11:21:33 EST 2014


correction, my test system is currently ~200 MB.

On 1/10/2014 10:11 AM, Preston wrote:
> I never do more than a netinstall, but I'm typically someplace with
> decent bandwidth so it's not an issue.
>
> I did like Bachata Linux for some vm's I did.
>
> http://www.staldal.nu/bachatalinux/
>
> It's serious when it says "minimal Debian based Linux system". I have
> less than 350 MB installs.
>
> On 1/9/2014 4:49 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> <rant>
>>
>> I just download bigger Debian 3.1 ISO and installed base form there.
>>
>> Base install + xfree + icewm-lite + mozilla suite = 407 MB
>>
>> Those days of "lean and mean" are gone :)
>>
>> <\rant>
>>
>> On 1/5/14, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>>> On 1/5/2014 09:06, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>>> Is anybody familiar in deep with Debian installer. In short I'm trying to
>>>> test something on 2.4 kernel etc. installing Debian 3.1 sarge.  I have
>>>> small network install Iso . When I point server URL at
>>>> archive.Debian.orginstaller looks for old stable/stable/testing
>>>> directories but on archive
>>>> server are only names of the the versions. So I'm looking to change
>>>> installer to look for sarge dir. I know I can just download bigger Iso
>>>> install base distro and change source for apt. So this is more of a
>>>> hacking
>>>> question and challenge, how to change old stable/stable/testing to sarge
>>>> and others names. Thank you and wish you all the best through 2014.
>>>>
>>> You put the name of the version where you would normally have stable,
>>> testing, unstable, etc.  (Debian calls this "pinning" since it gets used
>>> frequently to lock a version and prevent unexpected distribution upgrades).
>>>
>>> You should be able to edit the sources during install.  If you have
>>> direct access to the sources.list file then you'd modify them this way:
>>>
>>> #stable format:
>>> #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
>>> #pinned format:
>>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
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