stock Debian(not raspbian) on the rpi?

[PocketHarambe101]

Hi,
I found the Raspbian image(both GUI and lite) to be loaded with stuff I won't use. Maybe it's because I'm a noob at linux and I'm not using everything in the distro, but for now I want a small sized image that is still debian. I heard that stock Debian can be installed under 300 megabytes. Am I correct? I just want to install the exact minimum required for me to use the text console, no GUI needed. Is there a raspberry pi port of pure stock Debian? Thanks!

[Martin Frezman]

Why?

[PocketHarambe101]

it's explained in my post.

[allfox]

According to https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi

Can I put Debian on my Raspberry Pi?
[*]Yes.

[PocketHarambe101]

yeah, I read that, but it says I need a custom kernel. If that means I need to build my own kernel, that's bad news, because I'm not in the level for kernel hacking - I don't even know how to add a user to a unix system!

[allfox]

Well, by coincidence, I am reading the manpage of adduser(8) now either, trying to make serial port available to a normal user.

I don't know how to build a Debian kernel either.

I built Raspbian kernel by following https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... uilding.md

But keep digging, we'll be fine.

[Heater]

So download and install Raspbian Lite:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

Which is pretty much a minimal Debian install but tweaked to support the Pi nicely.

It's a 297MB download which results in using a Gig or so in the installed SD card. Given that you are going to be using a 4 gig , 8 gig or bigger SD card why worry about that?

I see no reason to want a stock Debian over Raspbian. It's pretty much the same stuff but you will be far better supported with Raspbian.

[DirkS]

Maybe you could use something like DietPi (http://dietpi.com/)

[Heater]

PocketHarambe101,

Ah, sorry, you mentioned Lite in your opening post.

Sure it may have a few things in it you won't need. So what? It's only going to occupy a small patch on your SD card and has no overheads at run time.

Going for the smallest system required to get to the command line is going to be a lot of inconvenience. It's not something I'd want to waste time on unless I really had to. Been there, done that.