Re: Install Report II (The Revenge; bf 3.0.7 (beta); Acer Laptop; floppy/basedebs)
Anthony Towns wrote:
> Enabled md5 passwords and shadow passwords. Tried leaving the root
> password blank, wasn't allowed to.
Not in MY base-config you won't, buddy. :-P
> Had to once again tell base-config I'm in Australia.
Good point. I've added a todo item, but since the county names used by
tzsetup probably don't entirely match those used by apt-setup, don't
hold your breath.
> Was surprised to see some
> tasks listed -- tasksel in woody's broken atm, but apparently the bind
> and news-server tasks are in the security area.
Hm. Dunno what we should do about this. IIRC, task-bind is built from
the same source as bind itself. (I was meaning to ask how you dealt with
that type of thing when you removed the task packages from testing..)
> Ran dselect. Chose to
> install all of optional. Ignored the dep/conflict screens as best I could.
> Got told: "Need to get 2066MB of archives. After unpacking 6158MB will
> be used". On a 300MB /? apt aborted. :) base-config asked me I wanted
> to retry. Said yes. It didn't let me go back to dselect, it just ran
> apt again. Lame.
Ok, that's fair. TODO'd.
> and ran apt-get clean. Hrm. base-config doesn't get rid of the
> debootstrap.invalid files in /var/lib/apt/lists; apt-get update does,
> though. Wonder what's with that.
What on earth are those? base-config runs apt-get update too, several
times, so I dunno.
Hmm, could you run cruft on that freshly installed system? I'm just
interested to know what else is falling through the cracks..
> Ended up with 68MB used.
Sweet!
> So 100MB is > probably about minimal for an install, with more than
> that if you want to actually do anything.
Nah, this message is being relayed through a very functional 90 mb debian
install. :-)
> What do people think of this format of report?
Since testing and reporting on the base-config process is really as
important as testing the boot-floppies process, it'd be nice if the
report format had some standardized fields for that.
Configure timezone [ ]
User and password setup [ ]
Apt setup [ ]
Package selection [ ]
Package installation [ ]
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