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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @PenguinWrangler
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      @penguinwrangler said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

      @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

      @nashbrydges said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

      @jaredbusch said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

      @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

      I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

      You can choose a different install method and should see fewer screens. My guides are not for the advanced users though.

      The less advanced users thank you profusely for that.

      I like CentOS' installer. It is just complex enough to do what you need, but clean and simple to make it all go quickly.

      I do like CentOS' installer, but I like OpenSuse's the best.

      It's pretty close.

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        Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
        last edited by Alex Sage

        Deepin installer is nice as well 🙂

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
          last edited by

          @aaronstuder said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

          Deepin installer is nice as well 🙂

          Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It was very impressive.

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            Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

            Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It was very impressive.

            The only problem is there is no option to delete all existing partitions and start fresh... or not one I could find anyways.

            I booted into a Mint Live CD and fdisk'ed it from terminal.

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch
              last edited by

              FYI, after a clean install, this is the list of packages not installed because the standard option was not selected.

              0_1501711061989_361eede9-38f4-4fa4-900e-11398f71026a-image.png

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              • black3dynamiteB
                black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

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                • travisdh1T
                  travisdh1 @BRRABill
                  last edited by

                  @brrabill said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                  @scottalanmiller said

                  I like CentOS' installer. It is just complex enough to do what you need, but clean and simple to make it all go quickly.

                  And it's GUI based which is awesome.

                  (slinks back into hiding)

                  I may be the only one here that likes the tui based CentOS installer better than the default one.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
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                    @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                    I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                    Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                    I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

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                    • black3dynamiteB
                      black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                      @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                      I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                      Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                      I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

                      Deepin Linux 😉

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                        last edited by

                        @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                        @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                        I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                        Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                        I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

                        Deepin Linux 😉

                        That's a desktop. We are talking about minimal servers here.

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                        • black3dynamiteB
                          black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                          I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                          Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                          I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

                          Deepin Linux 😉

                          That's a desktop. We are talking about minimal servers here.

                          So you preferred debian minimal over ubuntu minimal?

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                            last edited by

                            @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                            @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                            @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                            I'm liking Debian more and more as I use it. However the install process has a ridiculous number of screens.

                            Do you like Debian or distros that makes debian more enjoyable?

                            I like Debian itself and its logical standards. Not sure that any other distro makes it more enjoyable 🙂

                            Deepin Linux 😉

                            That's a desktop. We are talking about minimal servers here.

                            So you preferred debian minimal over ubuntu minimal?

                            I'm getting there. It's cleaner and less weird.

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                            • black3dynamiteB
                              black3dynamite
                              last edited by

                              Is Debian minimal smaller than CentOS/Fedora minimal?

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                                last edited by

                                @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                                Is Debian minimal smaller than CentOS/Fedora minimal?

                                Pretty sure by a bit. Maybe Jared has the specs in front of him.

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                                • JaredBuschJ
                                  JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                                  @black3dynamite said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                                  Is Debian minimal smaller than CentOS/Fedora minimal?

                                  Pretty sure by a bit. Maybe Jared has the specs in front of him.

                                  Nope.

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                                  • black3dynamiteB
                                    black3dynamite
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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      606MB, that's pretty small.

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                                      • Mike DavisM
                                        Mike Davis
                                        last edited by Mike Davis

                                        For those wondering how much space you save using the minimal install vs the typical install that Vultr does, here you go:
                                        (note, this is after a unifi controller install: https://mangolassi.it/topic/14601/how-to-install-the-ubiquiti-unifi-controller-on-debian-9-1 ) Thanks for @JaredBusch for both his guides.

                                        minimal install:

                                        root@unifi:~# df
                                        Filesystem                 1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
                                        udev                          240480       0    240480   0% /dev
                                        tmpfs                          50432    1060     49372   3% /run
                                        /dev/mapper/unifi--vg-root  19745212 2174736  16544428  12% /
                                        tmpfs                         252144       0    252144   0% /dev/shm
                                        tmpfs                           5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
                                        tmpfs                         252144       0    252144   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
                                        /dev/vda1                     240972   37023    191508  17% /boot
                                        tmpfs                          50428       0     50428   0% /run/user/1000
                                        root@unifi:~# free
                                                      total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
                                        Mem:         504292      316456        7988         624      179848      174336
                                        Swap:        524284        2108      522176
                                        

                                        Vultr typical Debian install:

                                        root@unifi:~# df
                                        Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
                                        udev              241052        0    241052   0% /dev
                                        tmpfs              50432     1660     48772   4% /run
                                        /dev/vda1       20614932 20598552         0 100% /
                                        tmpfs             252144        0    252144   0% /dev/shm
                                        tmpfs               5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
                                        tmpfs             252144        0    252144   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
                                        tmpfs              50428        0     50428   0% /run/user/0
                                        root@unifi:~# free
                                                      total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
                                        Mem:         504292      301768       52416        5452      150108      184188
                                        Swap:             0           0           0
                                        

                                        As you can see, it's the difference between being able to use a 20GB VM and not.

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                                        • black3dynamiteB
                                          black3dynamite @Mike Davis
                                          last edited by black3dynamite

                                          @mike-davis said in Installing Debian 9.1 minimal:

                                          For those wondering how much space you save using the minimal install vs the typical install that Vultr does, here you go:
                                          (note, this is after a unifi controller install: https://mangolassi.it/topic/14601/how-to-install-the-ubiquiti-unifi-controller-on-debian-9-1 ) Thanks for @JaredBusch for both his guides.

                                          minimal install:

                                          root@unifi:~# df
                                          Filesystem                 1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
                                          udev                          240480       0    240480   0% /dev
                                          tmpfs                          50432    1060     49372   3% /run
                                          /dev/mapper/unifi--vg-root  19745212 2174736  16544428  12% /
                                          tmpfs                         252144       0    252144   0% /dev/shm
                                          tmpfs                           5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
                                          tmpfs                         252144       0    252144   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
                                          /dev/vda1                     240972   37023    191508  17% /boot
                                          tmpfs                          50428       0     50428   0% /run/user/1000
                                          root@unifi:~# free
                                                        total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
                                          Mem:         504292      316456        7988         624      179848      174336
                                          Swap:        524284        2108      522176
                                          

                                          Vultr typical Debian install:

                                          root@unifi:~# df
                                          Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
                                          udev              241052        0    241052   0% /dev
                                          tmpfs              50432     1660     48772   4% /run
                                          /dev/vda1       20614932 20598552         0 100% /
                                          tmpfs             252144        0    252144   0% /dev/shm
                                          tmpfs               5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
                                          tmpfs             252144        0    252144   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
                                          tmpfs              50428        0     50428   0% /run/user/0
                                          root@unifi:~# free
                                                        total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
                                          Mem:         504292      301768       52416        5452      150108      184188
                                          Swap:             0           0           0
                                          

                                          As you can see, it's the difference between being able to use a 20GB VM and not.

                                          Vultr doesn't use swap too.

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                                          • Emad RE
                                            Emad R @JaredBusch
                                            last edited by

                                            @jaredbusch

                                            I love Debian very customized 20 + installation steps... said no one ever.

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