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
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