Re: Debian vs. floppy install

[Chow Chi-Ming <cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk>]

>>>>> "-Ing" == -Ing Andreas Wehler <wehler2@wrcs1.urz.uni-wuppertal.de> writes:

-Ing> : home PC. Now, with Debian there seems to be no information
-Ing> whatsoever on : how to choose the packages after you install the
-Ing> 4 or 5 base set : floppy disks. I know that if you use other
-Ing> methods like dpkg-ftp (I don't

-Ing>  We considered too the floppy emulsion (it's not a solution).
-Ing>  Unpack your multivolume tar to
-Ing> your home PC into an adjaecnt partition and install it via
-Ing> moundet fs.

I have done this a couple of times. 

-Ing> : the Debian sub-directories (admin, text, tex, misc,
-Ing> etc...). When I tried : to install the 1.1 release I had often
-Ing> to go back to the Debian server to : get more packages that
-Ing> depended on the ones I got first.

-Ing>  The needed information to select your packages should be in the
-Ing> Packages file, if you grep the names of the wanted packages.

After the base install (the 4 base floppies), there are a large number
of packages selected by default.  If you note each selected package in
dselect, you know exactly what packages you need.  Then download and
tar the whole lot.

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Billy C.-M. Chow 
Department of Systems Engineering       
The Chinese University of Hong Kong    
email: cmchow@se.cuhk.edu.hk           


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