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re: base disks and editors...

I have been listening to the "editors in the base system" thread and it
got me to thinking about the base system in general.

As the base system is composed of 3, 1.44 Meg diskettes, assuming they are
full, yields about 5.3 meg of compressed data. The base directory,
however, is almost 7 meg of .deb files. Is the difference in size all
accounted for in header data, or is there really a difference between the
data installed from the three base disks and the result of installing all
the packages in the base section?

WRT editors and other base features: Would it be so bad to enlarge the
base system? It already takes 5 diskettes to install a new base system.
Would it be so bad to increase this by 20%, to a 7 disk set?

One of the things I think should be in the base system is ppp and ftp.
Netbase, netstd and ppp will all fit on one diskette. In fact, when I
install Linux for others, I take a CD with everything on it, a boot, root,
and the three base disks, as well as, netstd, netbase, and ppp, on an
additional diskette. More than once it has allowed us to get the devel
section from the net, build a custom kernel that recognizes the CD drive
and install the rest from there.

A net capable base system is very desirable.

Thanks,

Dwarf

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