<div dir="ltr">Sounds really good for up to date distribution ...<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Preston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com" target="_blank">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">correction, my test system is currently ~200 MB.<br>
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On 1/10/2014 10:11 AM, Preston wrote:<br>
> I never do more than a netinstall, but I'm typically someplace with<br>
> decent bandwidth so it's not an issue.<br>
><br>
> I did like Bachata Linux for some vm's I did.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.staldal.nu/bachatalinux/" target="_blank">http://www.staldal.nu/bachatalinux/</a><br>
><br>
> It's serious when it says "minimal Debian based Linux system". I have<br>
> less than 350 MB installs.<br>
><br>
> On 1/9/2014 4:49 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
>> <rant><br>
>><br>
>> I just download bigger Debian 3.1 ISO and installed base form there.<br>
>><br>
>> Base install + xfree + icewm-lite + mozilla suite = 407 MB<br>
>><br>
>> Those days of "lean and mean" are gone :)<br>
>><br>
>> <\rant><br>
>><br>
>> On 1/5/14, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> On 1/5/2014 09:06, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
>>>> Is anybody familiar in deep with Debian installer. In short I'm trying to<br>
>>>> test something on 2.4 kernel etc. installing Debian 3.1 sarge. I have<br>
>>>> small network install Iso . When I point server URL at<br>
>>>> archive.Debian.orginstaller looks for old stable/stable/testing<br>
>>>> directories but on archive<br>
>>>> server are only names of the the versions. So I'm looking to change<br>
>>>> installer to look for sarge dir. I know I can just download bigger Iso<br>
>>>> install base distro and change source for apt. So this is more of a<br>
>>>> hacking<br>
>>>> question and challenge, how to change old stable/stable/testing to sarge<br>
>>>> and others names. Thank you and wish you all the best through 2014.<br>
>>>><br>
>>> You put the name of the version where you would normally have stable,<br>
>>> testing, unstable, etc. (Debian calls this "pinning" since it gets used<br>
>>> frequently to lock a version and prevent unexpected distribution upgrades).<br>
>>><br>
>>> You should be able to edit the sources during install. If you have<br>
>>> direct access to the sources.list file then you'd modify them this way:<br>
>>><br>
>>> #stable format:<br>
>>> #deb <a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/" target="_blank">http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/</a> stable main contrib non-free<br>
>>> #pinned format:<br>
>>> deb <a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/" target="_blank">http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/</a> sarge main contrib non-free<br>
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