[Tfug] Limited Installation

[Joshua Bernstein]

Hey Jim,

	My answer is to just pickup the latest Debian installation. Its pretty 
minimalistic, and won't even install X if you don't explicitly ask it 
to. After the installation, do a apt-get install apache2 and it will 
only install the additional packages you need for Apache.

-Josh



Jim Secan wrote:
> The system that host my website (a 12+ year-old Sun SparcClassic) is
> showing signs of impending death and I'm looking at options for a
> replacement.  Offsite hosting is right out.  The most obvious solution is
> to take an old PC (I've got a mostly unused 700MHz Dell beast) and put
> Linux on it.  However, I don't want to have anything on this system that
> isn't required for running apache server, java, and on rare occasions sftp
> and ssh.  Is there a good reference (on-line or off) on how to do such a
> minimalist installation?
> 
> TIA
> Jim
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