[Soekris] Debian install on 4801, eth0 won't work.

The Fungi fungi at yuggoth.org
Mon Feb 22 21:03:52 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:56:16PM -0800, William Estrada wrote:
> I wanted to install a small system image, so that is way I went the
> Debootstrap route. The standard installs, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. all seam
> to install the world for you, like M$ does.  My build was relatively
> small ( 1/2 gig ).
[...]

Using Debian Installer's "expert" mode, you can get a fairly small
(a few hundred megabytes) essential+base install and then
cherry-pick what additional packages you want for your particular
use case.
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