21 Mar
2018
21 Mar
'18
11:38 p.m.
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