On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 09:17:55PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: > On 8/27/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >to as the 'universal operating system', and is deployed on the tiniest of > >embedded devices to the largest of clusters, grids and carrier grade > >(beyond > > I'd like a trivial way to install a minimal upgradable system -- say > everything required to boot and run apt-get, and nothing else -- but > the ubuntu-minimal package (+ a kernel) seems to have far more in it > than that.
That's because it's the minimal *Ubuntu* system, rather than the minimal *Operating* system. With preseeding (the package list question, from memory) I think you can stop the system from installing even ubuntu-minimal, but for absolute minimalist installs, you can't go past a basic debootstrap+postcleanup script. Toight loik a toiger. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
