debian netinstall help

well the question is, what do you need for what? Are you trying to make a server?are you making a kde desktop? an openbox one?

you can apt-get any panel, file manager, music player - if not, you find the sources on the internet. just change the autostart.sh to which panel etc. should be loaded at start. Else you need to install from scratch, as you say, sudo, wicd/nm, openbox, obmenu, obconfig, nitrogen, tint2, fbpanel/lxpanel or whatever you like, write an autostart.sh file, copy the menu.xml and rc.xml from the original directory, modify them... it's quite a lot of little, PITA work. not as PITA as arch, though

Last edited by machinebacon (2010-07-16 18:41:26)

well i want to do that
i just need someone who doesn't get really pissed off at noobs and is willing to guide me through setting up X, setting up sudo and stuff

Having gone through a lot of  these kind of minimal installs with my eeepc 701, I can give you the list of minimum packages to have a working system with the debian-eeepc net-install;when you reboot use the commandline and type:
$ sudo apt-get install xinit xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-input-mouse xfonts-base
then it depends on which windows manager you want to use and whether you want to have a graphical login manager.
If you want a light Gnome, then $ sudo apt-get install gnome-minimal
                   Openbox, $ sudo apt-get install openbox obmenu obconf
If you want a graphical login, either install slim or gdm
Then $  sudo apt-get install synaptic, to be able to have a graphical package mamager

Last edited by oupsemma (2010-07-16 19:36:31)

Installing SUDO in Debian

# apt-get install sudo

sudo is configured entirely through the file /etc/sudoers. This file controls the commands which users are allowed to run.

# edit /etc/sudoers

    add a line:

    user ALL=(ALL) ALL

To run one command as root:

sudo command

For more commands, run your shell with sudo.

sudo sh      (if sh is your shell.)

Be careful when you are root. When you are done, type exit

For more details about sudo options check man pages of sudo.

some random SUDO examples:

# groups

User_Alias  ROOT = user1, user2, user3
User_Alias  WEBMASTERS = user4, user5, user6

# commands

Cmnd_Alias  APACHE = /usr/local/sbin/kickapache
Cmnd_Alias  TAIL = /usr/bin/tail

Cmnd_Alias      SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown

Cmnd_Alias      APT = /usr/bin/apt-get, /usr/bin/dpkg

# privileges 

ROOT        ALL = (ALL) ALL
WEBMASTERS  ALL = PASSWD : APACHE, TAIL
admin       ALL = NOPASSWD : /etc/init.d/apache 

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/sudo.htm
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usually you can use su instead of sudo:

su root apt-get install sudo
cd /etc
su root
visudo

at least

root    ALL=(ALL) ALL

XOR

%sudo      ALL=(ALL) ALL

should be included

later add users who can use sudo

addgroup *username* sudo

Last edited by machinebacon (2010-07-16 20:03:29)

Which 'standard system' was included? Gnome, KDE, XFCE? Just don't install the metapackages.

Edit: I understand - the step where you can choose the packages. Untick "Desktop environments" and only stay with standard system. You will apt-get install the DE later separately.

Last edited by machinebacon (2010-07-17 12:18:20)