Re: howto reduce size of a debian base system?

2009-10-30 Thread Geronimo Ma. Hernandez
Hello, > And you are really able to get memory sticks smaller then 2GB? :) - I found SD-card adapters for IDE-/SATA-connectors and found it quite attractive. > > For me, there's no reason to need or want a compiler or any other > > development tool on such a system. > > The minimal Debian syste

Bug#514826: marked as done (installation-report: Unable to boot with /boot on LVM and lilo)

2009-10-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:41:06 +0100 with message-id <87639wk1al@hati.baby-gnu.org> and subject line Re: Bug#514826: Acknowledgement (installation-report: Unable to boot with /boot on LVM and lilo) has caused the Debian Bug report #514826, regarding installation-report: Unable t

Processed: reassign 553389 to localechooser

2009-10-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 553389 localechooser Bug #553389 [localechoser] localechoser: localechooser overwrites debian-installer/locale Warning: Unknown package 'localechoser' Bug reassigned from package 'localechoser' to 'localechooser'. Bug No longer marked as

Re: howto reduce size of a debian base system?

2009-10-30 Thread Don Wright
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:41:30 +0100, "Geronimo Ma. Hernandez" wrote: >I would like to build such a tiny system even for i386 or amd64 systems, where >I can put the base system on a readonly memory stick (so a harddisk is only >needed for logfiles and other changing data). There is another proje

Re: howto reduce size of a debian base system?

2009-10-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:41:30PM +0100, Geronimo Ma. Hernandez wrote: > I would like to build such a tiny system even for i386 or amd64 systems, > where > I can put the base system on a readonly memory stick (so a harddisk is only > needed for logfiles and other changing data). And you are re

Re: howto reduce size of a debian base system?

2009-10-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 30. Oktober 2009, Geronimo Ma. Hernandez wrote: > Thank you very much for that hint - and No, I didn't know about it yet. :-) > The goals of crush sound very attractive to me and I feel sorry, that crush > is only intended for arm and other embedded CPUs. crush is not intended o

Re: howto reduce size of a debian base system?

2009-10-30 Thread Geronimo Ma. Hernandez
Hello, > > Is there already a debian way to build a compact base-system by usage of > > busybox? > > Or how can I create such a system? > > Do you know about emdebian.org? Thank you very much for that hint - and No, I didn't know about it yet. I gave grip a try, but I'm quite disappointed. The s

Re: howto reduce size of a debian base system?

2009-10-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Geronimo, On Freitag, 30. Oktober 2009, Geronimo Ma. Hernandez wrote: > Is there already a debian way to build a compact base-system by usage of > busybox? > Or how can I create such a system? Do you know about emdebian.org? regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a dig

Bug#513550: marked as done ([lenny][daily 20090121][i386] success)

2009-10-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:46:24 +1100 (EST) with message-id and subject line closing has caused the Debian Bug report #513550, regarding [lenny][daily 20090121][i386] success to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case

Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete

2009-10-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.29.1147 +]: > But maybe it's time to drop support for non-UTF-8 locales altogether? +1, but there are people who will not like it. I think Peter Palfrader is just one of those who (pretend to) not want/need Unicode. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related p

Bug#552563: auto-create preseed.cfg file

2009-10-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Philip Hands [2009.10.29.1303 +]: > If we were to add some hints to the question templates to indicate how > relevant a question is to preseeding, along with perhaps a udeb for > asking the intent questions that are vital to an auto-install, but will > never get asked in a manual i

Bug#342323: marked as done ([amd64] [etch] [beta1] successful)

2009-10-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: howto reduce size of a debian base system?

2009-10-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Geronimo Ma. Hernandez [091030 10:53]: > I tried several ways of debootstrap, even using --exclude parameter, but I > found no way to exclude an essential package from being installed. > [...] > Do I have to patch debootstrap or Packages.gz? Filtering the files debootstrap looks at might be a p

Re: howto reduce size of a debian base system?

2009-10-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:57:06AM +0100, Geronimo Ma. Hernandez wrote: > I tried several ways of debootstrap, even using --exclude parameter, but I > found no way to exclude an essential package from being installed. apt will forcibly install all essential packages, so there is no way out. Bast

howto reduce size of a debian base system?

2009-10-30 Thread Geronimo Ma. Hernandez
Hello, I tried several ways of debootstrap, even using --exclude parameter, but I found no way to exclude an essential package from being installed. For example I want to install a base system without gzip. Not for having a final system without gzip (wich would be quite silly), but by replacing

Re: Problem with the port of Debian/kfreeBSD Installer

2009-10-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting antonandr...@fmi.uni-sofia.bg (antonandr...@fmi.uni-sofia.bg): > It all worked well until it reached "apt-get config" -> "Select and Install > software" and then freezed at 1% for a long time and it does nothing. I do > not think it will ever reach 2%. The system is still responsive, but