Re: We should help this guy...
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> 1. Splitting up into 100MB parcels shouldn't be done by directories. even
> for the minimal installation you need nearly all dirs, even X.
> One should split up in base, required, optional,...
> Base and required should go into the first peace and maybe something else.
Good point. The packages should be grouped by `Priority' (required,
standard, important, optional, extra). From my lsl debian-1.3 disk,
I figure the sizes of the packages in those groupings in debian-1.3
to be:
required: 4793876
standard: 25864324
important: 5661090
optional: 289046958
extra: 12859036
---------
338225284
Also,
disks-i386: 22551K
doc: 1529K
tools: 610K
boot: 3977K
contrib: 13877K
So,
disks-i386 + doc + tools + boot + required + standard =~ 60MB
important =~ 60MB (or ~120MB for this + above)
optional + extra + contrib =~ (3 * 100MB)
This looks like it might fit nicely, with minimum massaging, into
a one or two month series with the standard and important packages.
Adding the rest might spin it out over another three months at
~100MB per month. Presented along with accompanying articles in
the magazine introducing unix, linux, and debian (unix/linux/debian
background info, debian-1.3, info on this special CD series, using
rawrite2, unpacking and using fips15, CD-boot install, floppy-install,
debian-install walkthrough, use and admin of debian-1.3), this should
go over well.
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