On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, J wrote: > I know that X can not be put in the 3 base disks but think > it would be possible to put VGA server, core binary (I mean > the absolute minimum) in > a few disks(I do not know the sizes so I just guess) so that > users can log in to X as root. If dselect is made in X later > I am sure this will be a base.
To log into X you must have (at least): xdm 87716 xauth 35876 xterm 230000 twm 137384 xrdb 28600 libX11.so.6.0 591290 libXt.so.6.0 309161 libXmu.so.6.0 83851 libXaw.so.6.0 260903 libSM.so.6.0 34609 libICE.so.6.0 82531 libXext.so.6.0 37024 XF86_VGA16 1424320 base fonts 3692544 Total: 7035809 > I suggest additional base disks for X. Therefore there is an > option in the installation whether people want to have minum > X. If they want they can put X base disks in the base disk > unpacking. This is quite a lot of extra disks. I expect that what will happen once we have an X-based dselect is that the base disks will be installed as they are at the moment. The first thing that will happen once the new system is booted will be that the user is asked whether they want to use a graphical package selector. If they do, the base X packages will be installed and the graphical package selector will be started. If they don't, dselect will be used just as it is now. > Whenever I copy all these > X lib, binary and servers, somehow floppy corruption occurs > especially with floppies non Sony (sony is the only high quality > floppy I have, others are cheap OEMs). Also, I do not know > what are the very necessary components for minimal running so > I tend to copy a lot. Bear in mind that some of the packages are too large to fit on a single floppy. You should be splitting them using dpkg-split. I know this isn't terribly convenient. There has been some discussion about providing ready-split packages on the ftp site, but nothing has happened so far. > When I tried to install, dselect tells me dependency problems. > I think it is because I have too many floppies which are > mixed with different releases(some unstable some older). As you > know people do not organize floppies (that is why people > want to computer to organize things). When you are given a message about dependency problems, it will tell you exactly what it is looking for. > Different level of base disks will be ideal. > 1. The very basic = 5 disks > 2. With minimal X , say 8 disks ...more like 12 > 3. With most editors, say 10 disks ...more like 19 > 4. With useful utilities say 13 disks ...more like 30 > 5. nearly complete, say 30 disks ...more like 80 I'm sorry, I don't think that your idea is practical. Remember that the whole idea of having base disks is to get a system installed that is able to boot, and is able to install new packages. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
