Felix Miata composed on 2018-03-22 00:17 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata composed on 2018-03-21 19:28 (UTC-0400): >> William Morder composed on 2018-03-21 16:04 (UTC-0700): >>> By the way, on the Trinity pages, there is nowhere that it describes how to do >>> a minimal installation (without other DEs), and just go straight to TDE. It >>> is probably there somewhere, but as others have also mentioned, the site is a >>> little disorganized, I think due to the fact that pages are added on an ad >>> hoc basis, and also that it's pretty much a volunteer project without the >>> resources of the bigger names. >> We went through this here a month ago. Doing a minimal installation is specific >> to each Distro, not TDE, so "it" would have to be a bunch of pages, or a more >> complicated page few or no single people could make alone. >> For Stretch, the cmdline options I use on >> http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::12201 >> that include string "install" will cause a truly minimal installation, to which >> you need to add Xorg from Debian, to have a working base from which to run TDE. >> If Devuan's installer is Debian-based, likely the same options would be >> applicable. If not, Devuan's own docs, help forum and/or mailing list archive >> ought to address such need. > Both Debian-based, and provides howto for minimal install: > https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/jessie-minimal-install > Instead of following the --include=nano instruction @Debootstrap, I would do > --include=mc, and have all its recommendeds at the outset. I just installed Devuan 2beta from a NETINST cd, with basic TDE, onto a 5.6GB partition on an old AMD Sempron 64 with 2GB RAM. Current space consumed is 29% of /. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/