Is there a build of Trisquel Mini 8 that is under 700 MB and can fit on a CD?
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I'm trying to install Trisquel Mini 8.0 onto a system from 1999, whose optical drive is only a CD drive and not a DVD drive, and has no way of booting from USB (not that that matters since it only supports USB 1.1).
I noticed that the latest build of Trisquel Mini is 950 MB, and therefore can't fit on a 700 MB recordable CD and so must be burned onto a DVD instead. Unfortunately, this means that I cannot install Trisquel Mini onto that system. (The system otherwise meets the system requirements for Trisquel Mini.)
I thought of using the Net Install image, as that can fit onto a CD with ample room to spare, but the machine doesn't (yet) have a means of connecting to the Internet. I also thought of installing the previous Trisquel Mini 7.0, whose image is small enough to fit onto a CD, and then upgrading, but I can't upgrade the system without Internet access and I'd prefer a fresh install of 8.0 so I don't have to do as much configuration.
Is there an image of Trisquel Mini 8.0 that has some non-essential packages removed, so that the image is under 700 MB? If not, can someone please make one? (As an example, I don't need Spanish language support, so that can be removed.)
Trisquel Netinst ISO image is only some 36–41 MB.
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/trisquel-netinst_9.0_amd64.iso
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/trisquel-netinst_9.0_i686.iso
http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel-images/trisquel-netinst_8.0_amd64.iso
http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel-images/trisquel-netinst_8.0_i686.iso
https://trisquel.info/files/Screenshot%20from%202020-07-22%2009-16-05.png
How about detaching the hard disk drive off it and install Trisquel on
other computer and finally attach the hard disk back again?
It would be hard to configure device drivers, as they'd be configured for the source (donor) computer rather than for the destination computer. I think this would cause more configuration issues than it's worth.
I do not think so. What "device drivers" will you have to configure? Can't that be done after you bring back the hard drive?
Another way would be:
- Burn a NetInstall ISO such as http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/trisquel-netinst_9.0_i686.iso (for Trisquel 9) on a CD and download http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/a/apt-offline/apt-offline_1.8.1_all.deb (again, for Trisquel 9);
- Bring all that to the offline computer;
- Install the NetInstall and 'sudo dpkg -i' apt-offline;
- Use apt-offline as explained in https://debian-administration.org/article/648/Offline_Package_Management_for_APT
I had a 20th-century legacy notebook that was similar with your computer. It had only CD-ROM drive and no NIC, though I purchased an Atheros-based PCMCIA wireless NIC much later. The system installation I used was Debian Installer's Xfce CD version (not Debian Live, but the binary installer). I could have Xfce desktop environment completely offline. I didn't enable contrib or non-free repository so the installation was free/libre.
However, there are some other workarounds for you. For example, you can try to find a USB NIC (ath9k-htc or wired), or remove the hard disk from your chassis and install the operating system on another computer using a USB-to-IDE converter.
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