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Re: was: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso

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On Tuesday 14 September 2021 10:08:34 Brian wrote:

> On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 09:27:25 +0000, Sriram wrote:
> > [...] Can you suggest some links for downloading the bullseye along
> > with xfce which comes to less than 1 GB or preferably somewhere
> > around 500-800 MB, or suggest ways to install the xfce offline  ,
> > there is no deb file for such GUI's.
>
> An xfce installation will pull in about 600 M of packages no matter
> what you choose to do. Does this give some perspective?
>
> What I would consider is:
>
> 1. Skip installation of a desktop in d-i and finish the remainder of
> the process.
>
> 2. Reboot, log in and create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01keep-debs.
>
> 3. Edit this file to have
>
>      Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";
>
>    Packages should remain in /var/cache/apt/archives/ for you to
> reuse. No futher downloading of xfce packages is now needed. You have
> your own personal "ISO" at no extra cost to disk space or bandwidth.
>
> 4. And finally do
>
>      apt install task-xfce-desktop

This is interesting and I will likely do it when I install the 
debian-11.1-net-install I just burnt.

But, I have installed 4, 1 terabyte samsung SSD's on a separate non-raid 
controller card which I intend to use as a software raid-6 or 10 after 
moving the current boot disk with stretch on it to be /dev/sdd, or even 
leaving it disconnected until 11.1 is installed. It has precious data on 
its platters. 

Those samsungs have not been configured for anything yet. They are seen 
ok but individually in dmesg. Looked at by gparted, but nothing written.

So, can the installer handle the configuration of those into a bootable 
format all by itself?

If not, what do I install and do to ready them before moving /dea/sda out 
of harms way and booting the 11.1 net-install iso? I can if needed, 
install a 60 or bigger Gig SSD as the /boot partition on the motherboard 
controller as /dev/sda if the software raid can't be booted from.

So how do I best proceed?

Thank you.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Sriram <vsram01@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-14 08:10 +0200
  Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-09-14 08:50 +0200
    Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Sriram <vsram01@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-14 11:50 +0200
      Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-09-14 12:30 +0200
      Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Sriram <vsram01@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-14 12:40 +0200
        Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Sriram <vsram01@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-16 07:30 +0200
          Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 09:50 +0200
            Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-16 11:50 +0200
            Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-16 15:10 +0200
              Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-17 00:50 +0200
                Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-17 01:20 +0200
      Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-14 16:10 +0200
        Re: was: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-09-14 17:50 +0200
          mdadm RAID and the Bullseye installer Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-09-14 19:00 +0200
            Re: mdadm RAID and the Bullseye installer Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-09-14 19:30 +0200
          Re: was: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-14 19:20 +0200
            Re: was: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-09-14 19:50 +0200
              Re: was: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 09:20 +0200
      Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-14 16:40 +0200
  Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 09:10 +0200
  Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-09-14 13:30 +0200
    Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 16:00 +0200
      Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-14 20:00 +0200
        Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 09:30 +0200
          Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-15 16:00 +0200
            Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 06:10 +0200
  Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-14 13:40 +0200
    Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-09-14 14:00 +0200
      Re: support for xfce in bullseye minimal netinst iso "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-14 15:30 +0200

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