Re: man missing ?
Quoting MallarJ@aol.com (MallarJ@aol.com):
> In a message dated 1/26/99 10:06:20 AM Central Standard Time,
> d.wright@open.ac.uk writes:
>
> > Every package in the base installation has to be potentially /necessary/
> > for the installation process itself, not just desirable, i.e.
> > essential rather than important. For more details, see
> > /usr/doc/debian-policy/policy.text.gz section 2.3.6
> >
>
> I installed my Debian system and it came complete with PPP, printer support,
> PCMCIA support and ZIP drive support - how are all of those necessary for
> installation?
PPP is essential if you install through a modem connection to the
internet. PCMCIA is essential if that modem is a pcmcia card in a
laptop. I use the ZIP drive support to save pumping floppies, but
I only started doing this after it became necessary because I had
to install linux on a machine with an LS120 drive (which can only
read a floppy through the BIOS).
I'm not sure where you got printer support from - the lpr package
is not in the list, viz.
ii lilo 20-0.1 LInux LOader - Loads Linux from ...
ii login 980403-0.3 Sign on to the system.
ii makedev 1.6-32 Creates special device files in ...
ii mawk 1.3.3-2 a pattern scanning and text proc...
Cheers,
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