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Re: base disks and editors...

Dale Scheetz:
> The base directory, however, is almost 7 meg of .deb files. 

Mine is only 5447 kilobytes.

> Would it be so bad to increase this by 20%, to a 7 disk set?

Yes.  It takes forever to load one floppy.  Remember, most people will
be installing many times, the first time they install Linux.

(What I would really like is a one floppy base install -- insert floppy,
boot, wait, and it is installed.  But I think floppies will have to grow
bigger before this can be done again.)

> One of the things I think should be in the base system is ppp and ftp.

Not everyone can make use of them.  Don't make me pay for something that
I can't use.  (That is a hypothetical "me".  I have PPP, and couldn't live
without it.)

Bruce said something about having problems fitting dpkg-ftp on the base
floppies.  I assume this means networking is already there.  Perhaps it
would be possible to add PPP as well.  (I wouldn't know.  I can't even
use my floppy unless I remove my tape drive, so I can't even try it.)

> A net capable base system is very desirable.

Agreed.  But not at the cost of another base floppy.