Minimal installation

[Gordon Messmer]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> 
> Remember that someone commented that "they had heard" this could be the 
> cause. We do not know that for sure.

cd /usr/share/locale
du -s .

On a workstation install, that directory is 189MB.  glibc-common is 
43MB, mostly translations.


> "Stripping out" all other languages is, I hope to God, simply not an 
> option.

It's a legitimate option if you do it post-install.  Debian, I believe, 
has a script that strips out unused languages.