Installing Debian 9.1 minimal
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@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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FYI, after a clean install, this is the list of packages not installed because the standard option was not selected.
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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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Is Debian minimal smaller than CentOS/Fedora minimal?
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@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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@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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606MB, that's pretty small.
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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 522176Vultr 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 0As you can see, it's the difference between being able to use a 20GB VM and not.
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@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 522176Vultr 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 0As 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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I love Debian very customized 20 + installation steps... said no one ever.
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@emad-r said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:
I love Debian very customized 20 + installation steps... said no one ever.
Debian does include an automated install.
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@emad-r said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:
I love Debian very customized 20 + installation steps... said no one ever.
I like options. It's not like you're going to go through all 20 steps for every installation once you have a base image setup, at least I'd hope not.
