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

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian Etch and Synaptic? Mark II

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On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:41:55PM +0000, 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.


Using "linux26 expert" at the very first boot prompt on the install
disk should do a minimal system installation -- particularly if you
skip the package selection step at the end entirely. This will give
you a text-only system, from which you can install only the bits you
need.

My Compact-Flash-based firewall, running Debian:

hrm@fenric:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                474M  192M  258M  43% /
/dev/root             474M  192M  258M  43% /
df: `/dev/.static/dev': Permission denied
tmpfs                  10M  432K  9.6M   5% /dev
tmpfs                  94M     0   94M   0% /tmp
tmpfs                  94M   43M   51M  46% /var
tmpfs                  94M  4.0K   94M   1% /dev/shm


Hugo.

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