how big is a small Debian install?

[Cerb]

I've had toruble recently with non-Debians and GRUB. Debian and its siblings work great, but others...not so, unless I use LILO (ugh ). So, I'm thinking of making a small partition to hold a command-line-only Debian install and GRUB, to handle kicking off other OSes (and maybe another bootloader or two), but am unsure how small I can make this partition to house it.

 

[The Linuxator]

Debian is not my area here...
/Awaits the Debian gang to arrive .

 

[rmrf]

you could do a debian netinstall, and use dselect to install only the packages you want. not sure how big the system ends up being, but I'm guessing without X and gnome and all the other non-essentials like OO2, etc., you would have a pretty small install on your hands.

 

[Cerb]

My hope is to find out how small that is before I re-install everything. I'd like to have under a day's time between starting and getting three OSes booting successfully (Windows 2000, this Debian, and SMGL). I want to give SMGL as much of its own space as possible, and I have a bit under 7.5GB to spread out (the rest is taken up by a NTFS and a FAT32).

 

[Need4Speed]

a generic install from one of the netinstall cds is roughly 200mb

 

[Cerb]

Thanks.

 

[Cerb]

Update: it was a success, and came it at 209.7MB.

So I now have a big way to use vim and nano ; but don't have to worry with LILO, and have already successfully crossmounted for easy tweaking (Debian has a /smgl to SMGL's /, and SMGl has a /sarge to Debian's /).