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dpkg-flop distribution

Hmm i didn't have an mail aliases to debian-private so
this is a retry.
> Hi all,
> 
> I wrote some introduction for the floppy distribution I'm working.
> English isn't my native language and I might have forgotten some
> stuff in this. Please comment.
> 
> Here we go
> 
> Debian floppy distribution.
> 
> If you are in the unfortunate position that you are condamned to do a
> full or partial install of Debian Linux with floppy disks, you are
> recommend to read this further. Perhaps you might find some
> suggestions to do the transfer via floppy's a little more efficient
> than you first thought. 
> 
> How is it organized?
> 
> All packages are available via the floppy distribution. Some are
> spread over two or more floppy disks, i.e.: the emacs package is
> approximately 5Mb big and split in 12 parts of approximately 460k. It
> is possible to copy the files from floppy disk size specific
> directories on the ftp-archive or a cd-rom. These floppy disk size
> specific directories have names related to the size of the target
> floppy disk like: floppy.1200, floppy.1440, floppy.1743, floppy.1840
> floppy.1992. The later three may seem to be a little strange but
> nearly all modern floppy disk drives support these sizes. Later will
> be explained how you can format floppy disks under linux.
> 
> The floppy disk size specific directories contain a ls-lLR.gz file
> with a summary of all directories and "files" in it. These "files" are
> actually symbolic links to the original packages or package-parts in
> the binary distribution. The directories are named according to the
> section the "files" belong too: devel-00, devel-01, ..., devel-??
> contain the "files" from the development section. Every first section
> specific directory (ending with `-00') contains a Packages file where
> all the packages from this section are listed. Additionally every
> directory contains a `ls-lL' file being a summary of the directory.
> 
> By copying the contents from the apropriate directory to a floppy disk
> you can distribute debian completely. It is not possible to do an
> automatic install (dselect floppy installation) with the first disk of
> the section set of disks missing, because this disk contains the
> Packages info of that set of disks.
> 
> How many flopps are needed:
> 
> Disksize	1220    1440    1743    1840    1992
> Section
> 
> admin		1	1	1	1	1
> base		4	3	3	3	3
> comm		2	
> devel		33
> doc		3      no automatic update yet.
> editors		9
> electronics	1
> games		3
> hamradio	1
> mail		4
> math		4
> misc		12
> net		4
> news		2
> shells		1
> sound		1
> tex		7
> text		6
> x11		20
> 
> How to format floppy disks under linux?
> 
> >From the superformat manpage (Alain Knaff <Alain.Knaff@imag.fr>)
> 
> superformat -d /dev/fd1
>     Format a 1200K disk in drive 1.
> superformat -d /dev/fd0 -s 18
>     Format a 1440K disk in drive 0.
> superformat --dd
>     Format a 720K disk in drive 0.
> superformat -s21 -t83
>     Format  a 1743K disk in drive 0 (83 tracks times 21 sectors).
> superformat -s24 -t83
>     Format a 1992K disk in drive 0 (83 tracks times  24 "sectors").
> superformat -s23 --2m
>     Format a 1840K disk in drive 0. 
> 
> Erick Branderhorst <branderh@debian.org>
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Erick Branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl +31-10-4635142
> Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
> 


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Erick Branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL