Re: Minimum HD space - one more tip.
- To: Heather Stern <star@starshine.org>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Minimum HD space - one more tip.
- From: Dave Price <davep@kinaole.org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:43:27 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20020702114327.C30516@kinaole.org>
- In-reply-to: <20020702170231.GA22868@starshine.org>; from star@starshine.org on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0700
- References: <001c01c22114$54ff8690$66481dac@semex1.semex.global.sharp.co.jp> <20020701160411.I26735@kinaole.org> <20020702170231.GA22868@starshine.org>
Good advise, thanks.
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:04:11PM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:31:12AM -0700, Jay wrote:
> But just for comparison I have a pretty much droppable-in kit of woody
> that's 150 MB - meaning, I like to put it in 200 MB "shaved off the end"
> partitions - which is not GUI on its own, but enough to run a laptop
> comfortably otherwise.
>
I would like to see a copy of that, or an .iso if you have one, I have
a mini woody net-inst, but there is always followup when installing
that.
>
> make sure you have some room in var since .deb's get fetched to
> /var/cache/apt/archives during install or upgrade phases. I just
> mention this because since you're running on tight space you may want to
> shave var a bit - you don't need months worth of logs, right? You
> certainly can, but do leave room for a couple of chubby packages,
> and note that you may have to pick packages to install two to five at a
> time like fruits and berries rather than take the "easy route" and type
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
When I shoe-horned woody onto a _tiny_ 486 laptop that I use as a
firewall, I learned the value of:
apt-cache clean (purge all those .debs after you have installed 'em)
aloha,
dave
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