Re: [Hampshire] Debian Etch and Synaptic? Mark II

Andy Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:31:15PM +0000, Jim Kissel wrote:
>> I'm trying to build a Debian system that will fix into 512M flash
>> card.
>
> And it needs to run metacity and nautilus?
>
> It's been a while since I installed Debian in any way other than
> debootstrap so I don't know how finely one can tune the installation
> process. My Debian Etch image is about 150MB compressed and without
> kernel, so you should be OK.
>
> So, if you can't find an easier way, I suggest booting off alive cd
> and doing a debootstrap.

Having looked at
<http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs04.html.en> and from
what you've said, it looks the best way forward. Start small and add
the bits we need.

thx

>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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