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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
