Re: Floppy X

[dhs@firefly.com (David H. Silber)]

> 
> On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, J wrote:
> 
> > I suggest additional base disks for X. Therefore there is an
> > option in the installation whether people want to have minum
> > X. If they want they can put X base disks in the base disk
> > unpacking.
> 
> This is quite a lot of extra disks.
> 
> > Whenever I copy all these
> > X lib, binary and servers, somehow floppy corruption occurs
> > especially with floppies non Sony (sony is the only high quality
> > floppy I have, others are cheap OEMs). Also, I do not know
> > what are the very necessary components for minimal running so
> > I tend to copy a lot.
> 
> Bear in mind that some of the packages are too large to fit on a single 
> floppy. You should be splitting them using dpkg-split. I know this isn't 
> terribly convenient. There has been some discussion about providing 
> ready-split packages on the ftp site, but nothing has happened so far.
> 
> > 1. The very basic = 5 disks
> > 2. With minimal X , say   8 disks
> ...more like 12
> > 3. With most editors, say  10 disks
> ...more like 19
> > 4. With useful utilities say 13 disks
> ...more like 30
> > 5. nearly complete, say 30 disks
> ...more like 80
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't think that your idea is practical. Remember that the 
> whole idea of having base disks is to get a system installed that is able 
> to boot, and is able to install new packages.

I suspect this should and will be dealt with just like most debian features.
If someone wants floppy install disks beyond the base disks, s/he can make
it happen.

Since J is having problems downloading the system, he probably would not be
able to do it.  Perhaps someone local to him could help him make an initial
set of floppies or show him how to do so.


> Steve Early
> sde1000@cam.ac.uk


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