Shrinking consumed diskspace

[Anders Häggström]

2007/5/29, Soren Hansen <sh at linux2go.dk>:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 02:21:59AM +0200, Anders Häggström wrote:
> > I have now shrinked the serverinstallation of Feisty down to aprox
> > 350MB. My keywords so far is to swich to a server-kernel, to be able
> > to remove Xorg-dependencies, and removing documentation.
>
> Huh?
>
> 1. Standard server installation is already at around 350MB.
> 2. Server kernel *is* default on server installations.
> 3. The installed kernel has *nothing* to do with whether or not you can remove
> Xorg, which by the way is not even installed on a server installation.
>
> > I also found out that you should not use apt-get, as it does not keep
> > track of dependencies.
>
> Er.. Yes, it does.
>
1. No
2. No
3. Maby I was using bad english. What I meant was the nVidia
graphicsdriver and those stuff that is only useful to Xorg but is a
dependecy for the generic-kernel because it is a kernel module.

This is not what I experienced when installing it.
My installation was ~650MB after the installation, with a
generic-kernel and I didn't get a choise to install the server-kernel
during the installation. I also have some laptop-specific packages
installed such as wpasuplicant and wireless-tools that is dependencies
to ubuntu-minimal but does not belong in a server enviroment.
And if I look into the kernel config there is more stuff that is
laptop/desktop-specific, like CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY (if that isn't used
for UPSes but I don't believe so), CONFIG_ACPI_DOCK and
cardbus/pcmcia/pccard and irda/bluetooth. Maby neccesay in some
servers, but I doubt it common.

To Ante Karamatić, do you really think it's helpful to shout for a lot
of false statements and don't describe what you mean? You don't think
I'm lying, do you?

To Soren Hansen, if the serverinstallation was 350MB with a
server-kernel as standard this discussion about shrinking it shouldn't
have started, don't you think?

// Anders