On Wednesday 21 March 2018 16:38:50 deloptes wrote: > William Morder wrote: > > 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. I realize that > > redesigning the site is a big job, but maybe a link (on the home page) to > > a site map would be a good place to start? > > installing the base system is not part of TDE. > It is very simple, I usually pick up the debian network installation disk > or usb image and when asked for system type I do not select anything except > basic > > there many online step by step guides - example > https://www.pcsuggest.com/debian-minimal-install-guide/ > > > For myself, I always used either the Trinity installation discs, or more > > usually I would install one of the 'buntus, then use the guide for > > installing TDE; so when I moved to Debian, I followed the same guide. If > > there were a clearly marked place with instructions for minimal > > installation, I might have saved myself a lot of time. Again, I believe > > that a lot of potential Trinity users give up, because those who know > > already know, and they can only be found here on the mailing list. Those > > who don't know (I mean the total n00bs) don't know where to look, nor who > > to ask for help, and the questions discussed on the mailing list are > > probably over their heads. > > look at step 13 "Now select which components you want to install, choose > only standard system utilities if you want a minimal install" > > > On my root partition, however, I have other stuff installed in opt, such > > as Seamonkey and OpenOffice (don't like LibreOffice, as it messes up my > > documents). Also, other software that I have tried out (such as the > > Vivaldi browser) use the opt folder. (I don't currently use Vivaldi, but > > I like to try out different things, then get rid of them again if I don't > > like them.) So for my purposes, it's probably good to have a root > > partition that's larger than normal, just so I have some wiggle room. I > > don't really use the home partition for saving anything, anyway; > > everything there is moved to external drives as soon as possible. > > Backup that directory, when installing assign dedicated partition ( trinity > requires about 1G, I would count with 2G for trinity) so based on your > current size you can easily calculate the space. > > If you have trinity already there, you can remove it (rm -rf ) after > restoring from backup and before installing new trinity desktop. > > On my desktop root is 20G with 6.7G used, opt is bigger with a lot of > custom stuff, but as mentioned trinity would cope with anything above 2G > very well > > I put all of this on luks and LVM and now even installer can do it right. > > regards > > Does anybody here make /opt a separate partition? Since so many programs use it that are better not to run with admin privileges, it seems better not to put /opt in the root partition. But then I wonder if installations would go awry for those packages that use /opt. (Not only TDE, but also other programs, such as Seamonkey, OpenOffice, etc., use /opt for installation.) Bill > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read list > messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting