Debian Minimal Install on Bare Metal

in this video I wanted to go over setting up a minimal Debian install with no desktop environment at all and the steps you would take to get started with a tiling window manager as the only de on the system I recently purchased a capture card with HDMI pastor so I'll be setting this up on Hardware no virtual machines today let's get started in the UEFI or BIOS there are a couple things I want to check before booting into my Debian 10.3 USB I wanted to make sure that SMT mode is turned on which is simultaneous multithreading this will give our Rison 5 1500 X quad-core processor making this making sure that it has four cores and eight threads enabled the other is I wanted to make sure that my Rams XMP profile is loaded so my ram is running at ddr4 29:33 and also in the CPU configuration I wanted to make sure that SVM mode was turned on as well this will enable virtualization so if I decide to install VirtualBox organ on boxes or QEMU all of that work other than that I just rather than that that's really about it except right here for RGB LED I wanted to make sure that that was turned off because RGB is dumb go ahead and hit me if you want but it's just my opinion RGB is dumb and here we're going to change the boot options so boot option morning we're going to make that the UEFI USB I'm going to make that partition too you and now that's really about all we had to do in the BIOS let's save and exit and let's go into our Debian 10.3 USB all right and we are in the unit the debian 10 USB and stopper we're just gonna go through a quick graphical install and we should be doing just a few minutes and if you have if you've never installed Debian before I'll I'll just kind of go through the process pretty quickly but this is going to be very easy very straightforward it's not going to take very long at all so for me of course I speak English we're just gonna hit enter I'm in the United States enter again I have an American English keyboard enter again so far so good you for my hostname I'm going to name it mad Debian's fun domain name we're going to live loan I'm not going to of myself a root password because the root password when you sit when you set up a Debian install if you do not give yourself you don't set a root password password the system's initial user account will be given power to become root using the sudo command so I'm not going to setup a root password on this machine we're going to name myself Mike user account as Mike set up a password and let it run from there I'm in these time zone you we're going to do guided use entire disk I have a 240 gig Kingston Drive I have a 4 terabyte and hard drive but that it has a lot of data already on it so I'm not going to be using that one and the 30 to get the 32 gig P&Y is actually my install USB so I'm going to choose the 240 gig Kingston I'm going to create a separate home partition and then we're going to finish partitioning and write changes to the disk it's going to set up a it's going to set up partition one is esp for my UEFI environment ext4 for my root a swap partition and another ext4 partition for my for my home folder and that all that looks good so we're going to arrow down to yes and right changes to the disk and this is probably going to take a little bit so I'm just going to let this run I will probably fast forward through a lot of you we do want to use a network mirror United States is good for me and Deb dot Debian dot org if you don't know what you need to pick here this one is usually a good choice it even says so up here in up here in the title where I'm not going to use a proxy and I think I will participate in the package survey you now here is where we're going to choose the desktop environments or lack thereof that we're going to to install so I'm going to hit the spacebar I'm not going to install any of these desktop environments but I will install the SSH server then we can just tap over to continue and press Enter and since we're not installing a desktop environment this is going to go pretty quickly you you and our installation is complete so I'm going to tab and hit continue all right and here we are booted into Debian Buster with no desktop environment at all so I'm going to log in with the user that I created earlier alright and the first thing I want to do is check and make sure sudo works sudo apt okay I'm sure it will work you to edit my sources dot list file so let's do sudo nano Etsy apt sources dot lists and here for the Deb cd-rom Debian gnu/linux 10.3 Buster official amd64 DVD binary I want to comment this out then come down to the end of the end of the first few the rest of the lines here where I have main I want to add contribs and non free and then we're going to do control X to exit y for yes and enter we conclude the screen and do sudo apt update again all right and then sudo apt upgrade okay so we are written we are fully updated and ready to rock all right let's screw the screen again now to install a window manager we first need to get X installed on through the system this let's look at let's do sudo apt install xorg X server xorg there's an Nvidia card in this system so let's do in video detect X utils Mesa utils and excellent all right and since that's done now let's run nvidia detect I don't think I had to be sudo okay it says I need to install the Nvidia - driver so sudo apt install Nvidia - driver you you okay conflicting Nauvoo kernel module loaded the free Nova kernel is currently loaded with and conflicts with two non free and vini and kernel module the easiest way to fix is to reboot the machine once the installation is finished okay under sudo apt install firmware thanks where's and the non-free firmware as well reddit right and now let's install our window manager and a couple and a few other utilities to make sure that we're gonna have it a complete working system and then edit our x net RC file so the window manager that I want to use today is kind of an esoteric one I want to use Spectre WM I've been playing around with this with this window magic for a few months now in in my spare time and I've really really enjoyed it is a dynamic tiling window manager kind of like DWM and Dex monad but it has a plain text file config and it's it's pretty great I'm gonna probably make another video about just about Specter WM and configuring it and configuring it but right now I'm just going to show how to get going with this on debian so we're going to do sudo apt install Specter WM we're going to need D menu let's do LX appearance we're going to need a terminal so let's do our X feet T unicode let's do X term as a fallback let's do nitrogen let's see a web browser Firefox that's es or soon or for our final month for our film file manager we're going to install a theme let's do materia gtk a theme and let's do an icon set I'll look at the deepen icon theme and we're going to let that go you all right another that's done let's do the X net RC so we're just going to do echo exe C space Spectre WM into dot X a home slash dot X and that RC and now we can reboot let's log back in and let's do storix and here we are in WM our terminal renew sudo apt install X render do now let's get get and them installed on the system so sudo apt I want to clear the screen sudo apt install get and them and I really don't like the way we have a this white background it's kind of glaring so let's let's fix that let's do you get clone HTTP colon slash slash github.com slash next a blur slash personal not false you so I have my extra sources file here we're going to but it's cat extra sources - home slash dot X defaults we're going to exit out of that that is much better so let's get clone HTTP github.com / linux tailor flash debian dialog install script then we can do CH mo d + X dialogue got SH and this here is actually just a simple little script I wrote to make installing stuff on Debian a little bit easier so this so I'll just kind of run through it run through it real quick the first one will give the standard user root access if you created if you created a a root password this one will enable contribute non-free repose this one will return you to the original sources that list this one will give you the liquor external which is a the newest you know custom kernel from the liquorice project let's say let's do snap packages flat pack let's put synaptic on the system tip let's do them must've Gini compression compression utilities ufw I'm just gonna do it but we're gonna do something really really minimal warrior H top parted curl w get Ranger build a central SSH your aura get your xvt but do transmission Samba already have the Nvidia driver pulseaudio Microsoft files have been to farts oh just a bunch of fonts you can do fair inkscape digit cam handbrake keneniah VLC but I'm just gonna that if I do this if I do all of these this script is going to take forever to run so I'm just going to skip over most of it because you can install steam polluter as' a bunch of different file managers nitrogen variety LX appearance we're going to make our QT apps match GT K and here I was kind of messing around with poly bar about having it automatically build from source but I still need to tweak it a little bit I see exFAT utils I swap in this ten and play up an update and I'm just gonna let that run so I will pause the recording and come back when everything's finished properly so let's exit out of here and we're gonna fire up the menu and go to nitrogen you and that's about all I've got for today I just kind of wanted to show how to do a minimal Debian install with a tiling window manager it's the only desktop environment and since arch usually gets all the love in that in that department so Debian is my distribution of choice and I just wanted to show that it could be done as well and actually a little bit easier on Debian that it is an arch and if you wanted to take a look at the script that I used to install a lot of that software I'm gonna link that down to the description so if you're interested in that by all means take a take a look you can use anything you want out of it so with that being said thank you for watching like share and subscribe say all the next one you

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Length: 21min 3sec (1263 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 09 2020