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xavier

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Registered: 2009-05-16

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Minimal installation Arch linux

Hi guy,

In first time, sorry for my english..

In second i serch to install a minimal system and less number of package..
   
During installation, when select software which is really necessary in the section base?

Thank you ..

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ralvez

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Re: Minimal installation Arch linux

You only need to install the base packages, then whatever else you want you use pacman to install.

Hope this answers your question.

R.

Last edited by ralvez (2009-05-17 23:04:08)

Allan

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Re: Minimal installation Arch linux

Selecting just kernel26, pacman and initscripts may get you a booting system in which you can install more software...

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xavier

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Registered: 2009-05-16

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Re: Minimal installation Arch linux

no, sorry if I did not explained well ..

what I wanted to say in the selection of packages in the base when installing some software are not as important as mdadm, which others can remove without affecting my system?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Minimal installation Arch linux

I installed most of what was proposed, IIRC I dropped nano, xfsutils, jfsutils & reiserfsprogs. I did some cleaning up after  the installation, when I had a working system. I removed 'pcmciautils', 'file', 'ed', 'cpio', 'tar' and some internet/network related apps - it depends on what you need and what can you drop. I managed to uninstall about twenty packages, but the lack of 'file' was spotted by the system when invoking makepkg (nothing serious, I believe it was only a warning).
'pacman -Qi | less' can help you familiarize yourself w/ what you have installed.

Arch already is a lean distro so there's not much you can/need to uninstall. Why do you want to hunt those couple MB / packages? What do you want to accomplish?

Last edited by karol (2009-05-17 23:50:08)

rhomp2002

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Registered: 2008-08-01

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Re: Minimal installation Arch linux

I don't know about anyone else but I would like to know what the available packages are for.  The names are listed but that means nothing to me.  For instance there are ipw2200, ipw2600.  If I am not using wireless are these necessary and if I am using wireless do they conflict and I need to pick one?  I haven't seen anyplace that tells me what the packages are.  I realize that I need the base packages which are automatically selected.  The problem is the rest of the packges and what they do.  It would help if the screen would allow clicking on the selector and having it tell me what the packages are for.  Then I could maybe make an educated choice on whether to pick them or not.

would also like an option when I install Grub if I can add the rest of the distros I have already on the computer and make Arch be the main distro.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Minimal installation Arch linux

Have you tried 'pacman -Qi ipw2200' or generally 'pacman -Qi | less'?

I think you can edit your grub the way you want, we don't mind.