Re: Minimial Live Image

From	Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Minimial Live Image
Date	2019-07-12 15:10 +0200
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On 7/12/19 1:38 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>> On Jul 11, 2019, at 11:06 AM, J.Arun Mani <J.ArunMani@protonmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Im planning to install Debian in my (already Linux Mint powered) laptop. But the ISO size is huge (~2.7 GB), something beyond my per-day bandwidth limit of 1.5 GB (actually 2 GB, but .5 GB is spent in other personal things). And I also found that Debian ships with a large pack of softwares and does not have (official) support for propertiary drivers.
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>> So what I want is a live bootable minimial ISO with a DE (a basic one is enough if DEs can be changed easily later) and a basic set of packages with support for propertiary drivers (is there anyother way to get it if Debian doesn't provide it officially ?).
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>> My dear friends, help me, where can I find such ISOs? (No Netinst or Network boot, because of my Internet speed and other issues)
>>
>> Nice day :)
>> J Arun Mani
> Hi!
>
> I found this [1] 1.3GB image.  (“standard” = no DE, just text console.  But you can add any DE you want later with “sudo tasksel”.)  That’s just barely under your stated daily bandwidth allowance of 1.5GB.  Everything else (the images that include a DE GUI) is hovering around 2.5GB.
actually the "standard" does install a desktop, it is some sort of Gnome 
Lite.

I made the mistake of not deselecting it (DVD install) a day or two ago 
and ended up with a very odd desktop that that did not include Synaptic.
After finding the "software store" I got Synaptic installed but it had 
something that conflicted so it did not operate correctly.

I finally discovered that if I logout and then login it there were 
several options options,
one was *system X11 default*.
choosing that I was able to run Synaptic and proceed with installing Mate.

I suspect it has something to do with Wayland as dictated by Gnome
> You can also get it from bittorrent at [2].  Bittorrent is recommended if you have a choice, because it minimizes the load on the debian.org servers.
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> Hope it helps!
>
> Rick
>
> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/10.0.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-standard+nonfree.iso
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> [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/10.0.0-live+nonfree/amd64/bt-hybrid/debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-standard+nonfree.iso.torrent
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Minimial Live Image "J.Arun Mani" <J.ArunMani@protonmail.com> - 2019-07-11 20:30 +0200
  Re: Minimial Live Image Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-07-11 21:00 +0200
  Re: Minimial Live Image Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2019-07-12 10:40 +0200
    Re: Minimial Live Image Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-07-12 15:10 +0200

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