At 05:45 PM 1/27/1999 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> * I, and I am positive I'm not alone, would be willing to download
>> an extra (optional) disk at install time so I could get a basic man
>> set, with the full package being available as it is now - just so I
>> wouldn't be completely in the dark once the install program completed.
>
>Would instructions as to how to copy the .deb in question to a floppy
>and install it with dpkg before running dselect suffice?

As someone with several months experience now with Linux, yes. As someone
who's never seen a UNIX/Linux prompt or heard of dpkg and has a tremendous
learning curve in front of him, I think the optional installation floppy is
a better idea.

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