On 7/12/19 1:38 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 11, 2019, at 11:06 AM, J.Arun Mani <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi
Im planning to install Debian in my (already Linux Mint powered) laptop. But
the ISO size is huge (~2.7 GB), something beyond my per-day bandwidth limit of
1.5 GB (actually 2 GB, but .5 GB is spent in other personal things). And I also
found that Debian ships with a large pack of softwares and does not have
(official) support for propertiary drivers.
So what I want is a live bootable minimial ISO with a DE (a basic one is enough
if DEs can be changed easily later) and a basic set of packages with support
for propertiary drivers (is there anyother way to get it if Debian doesn't
provide it officially ?).
My dear friends, help me, where can I find such ISOs? (No Netinst or Network
boot, because of my Internet speed and other issues)
Nice day :)
J Arun Mani
Hi!
I found this [1] 1.3GB image. (“standard” = no DE, just text console. But you
can add any DE you want later with “sudo tasksel”.) That’s just barely under
your stated daily bandwidth allowance of 1.5GB. Everything else (the images
that include a DE GUI) is hovering around 2.5GB.
actually the "standard" does install a desktop, it is some sort of Gnome
Lite.
I made the mistake of not deselecting it (DVD install) a day or two ago
and ended up with a very odd desktop that that did not include Synaptic.
After finding the "software store" I got Synaptic installed but it had
something that conflicted so it did not operate correctly.
I finally discovered that if I logout and then login it there were
several options options,
one was *system X11 default*.
choosing that I was able to run Synaptic and proceed with installing Mate.
I suspect it has something to do with Wayland as dictated by Gnome
You can also get it from bittorrent at [2]. Bittorrent is recommended if you
have a choice, because it minimizes the load on the debian.org servers.
Hope it helps!
Rick
[1]
https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/10.0.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-standard+nonfree.iso
[2]
https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/10.0.0-live+nonfree/amd64/bt-hybrid/debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-standard+nonfree.iso.torrent
