[ale] debian installer

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Sat Jan 11 12:43:51 EST 2014


Sounds really good for up to date distribution ...


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Preston <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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