On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:52:55PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 | > MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then | > install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB. | > | > Is there a small Debian setup I missed? | | <disclaimer="my opinion"> | If you want a "small setup" you shouldn't choose any task package at | all ... do the base install, install what you need (and possibly | uninstall what you don't; base still has a bit of "cruft"). Voila. | </disclaimer>
I agree with this. I had a gateway system setup on which I manually picked the packages and it only used ~120MB. I'm sure several of that were used by /var/cache/apt/archives -- whenever you 'apt-get upgrade' a copy of the .deb file is cached in that directory. HTH, -D