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      Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
      last edited by Alex Sage

      Deepin installer is nice as well 🙂

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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        @aaronstuder said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

        Deepin installer is nice as well 🙂

        Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It was very impressive.

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          Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

          Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It was very impressive.

          The only problem is there is no option to delete all existing partitions and start fresh... or not one I could find anyways.

          I booted into a Mint Live CD and fdisk'ed it from terminal.

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch
            last edited by

            FYI, after a clean install, this is the list of packages not installed because the standard option was not selected.

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            • black3dynamiteB
              black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

              I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

              Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

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              • travisdh1T
                travisdh1 @BRRABill
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                @brrabill said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                @scottalanmiller said

                I like CentOS' installer. It is just complex enough to do what you need, but clean and simple to make it all go quickly.

                And it's GUI based which is awesome.

                (slinks back into hiding)

                I may be the only one here that likes the tui based CentOS installer better than the default one.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                  last edited by

                  @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                  I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                  Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                  I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

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                  • black3dynamiteB
                    black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                    @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                    I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                    Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                    I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

                    Deepin Linux 😉

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                      last edited by

                      @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                      @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                      I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                      Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                      I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

                      Deepin Linux 😉

                      That's a desktop. We are talking about minimal servers here.

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                      • black3dynamiteB
                        black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                        @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                        @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                        I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                        Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                        I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

                        Deepin Linux 😉

                        That's a desktop. We are talking about minimal servers here.

                        So you preferred debian minimal over ubuntu minimal?

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                          last edited by

                          @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                          Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                          I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

                          Deepin Linux 😉

                          That's a desktop. We are talking about minimal servers here.

                          So you preferred debian minimal over ubuntu minimal?

                          I'm getting there. It's cleaner and less weird.

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                          • black3dynamiteB
                            black3dynamite
                            last edited by

                            Is Debian minimal smaller than CentOS/Fedora minimal?

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                              last edited by

                              @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                              Is Debian minimal smaller than CentOS/Fedora minimal?

                              Pretty sure by a bit. Maybe Jared has the specs in front of him.

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                              • JaredBuschJ
                                JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                                @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                                Is Debian minimal smaller than CentOS/Fedora minimal?

                                Pretty sure by a bit. Maybe Jared has the specs in front of him.

                                Nope.

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                                • black3dynamiteB
                                  black3dynamite
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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    606MB, that's pretty small.

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                                    • Mike DavisM
                                      Mike Davis
                                      last edited by Mike Davis

                                      For those wondering how much space you save using the minimal install vs the typical install that Vultr does, here you go:
                                      (note, this is after a unifi controller install: https://mangolassi.it/topic/14601/how-to-install-the-ubiquiti-unifi-controller-on-debian-9-1 ) Thanks for @JaredBusch for both his guides.

                                      minimal install:

                                      root@unifi:~# df
Filesystem                 1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev                          240480       0    240480   0% /dev
tmpfs                          50432    1060     49372   3% /run
/dev/mapper/unifi--vg-root  19745212 2174736  16544428  12% /
tmpfs                         252144       0    252144   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                           5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                         252144       0    252144   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda1                     240972   37023    191508  17% /boot
tmpfs                          50428       0     50428   0% /run/user/1000
root@unifi:~# free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         504292      316456        7988         624      179848      174336
Swap:        524284        2108      522176

                                      Vultr typical Debian install:

                                      root@unifi:~# df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev              241052        0    241052   0% /dev
tmpfs              50432     1660     48772   4% /run
/dev/vda1       20614932 20598552         0 100% /
tmpfs             252144        0    252144   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs             252144        0    252144   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs              50428        0     50428   0% /run/user/0
root@unifi:~# free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         504292      301768       52416        5452      150108      184188
Swap:             0           0           0

                                      As you can see, it's the difference between being able to use a 20GB VM and not.

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                                      • black3dynamiteB
                                        black3dynamite @Mike Davis
                                        last edited by black3dynamite

                                        @mike-davis said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                                        For those wondering how much space you save using the minimal install vs the typical install that Vultr does, here you go:
                                        (note, this is after a unifi controller install: https://mangolassi.it/topic/14601/how-to-install-the-ubiquiti-unifi-controller-on-debian-9-1 ) Thanks for @JaredBusch for both his guides.

                                        minimal install:

                                        root@unifi:~# df
Filesystem                 1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev                          240480       0    240480   0% /dev
tmpfs                          50432    1060     49372   3% /run
/dev/mapper/unifi--vg-root  19745212 2174736  16544428  12% /
tmpfs                         252144       0    252144   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                           5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                         252144       0    252144   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda1                     240972   37023    191508  17% /boot
tmpfs                          50428       0     50428   0% /run/user/1000
root@unifi:~# free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         504292      316456        7988         624      179848      174336
Swap:        524284        2108      522176

                                        Vultr typical Debian install:

                                        root@unifi:~# df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev              241052        0    241052   0% /dev
tmpfs              50432     1660     48772   4% /run
/dev/vda1       20614932 20598552         0 100% /
tmpfs             252144        0    252144   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs             252144        0    252144   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs              50428        0     50428   0% /run/user/0
root@unifi:~# free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         504292      301768       52416        5452      150108      184188
Swap:             0           0           0

                                        As you can see, it's the difference between being able to use a 20GB VM and not.

                                        Vultr doesn't use swap too.

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                                        • Emad RE
                                          Emad R @JaredBusch
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                                          @jaredbusch

                                          I love Debian very customized 20 + installation steps... said no one ever.

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                                          • black3dynamiteB
                                            black3dynamite @Emad R
                                            last edited by

                                            @emad-r said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                                            @jaredbusch

                                            I love Debian very customized 20 + installation steps... said no one ever.

                                            Debian does include an automated install.

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