Re: CVS commit: basesrc/distrib/macppc/floppies/ramdisk

[James Chacon <jchacon%genuity.net@localhost>]

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>James Chacon <jchacon%genuity.net@localhost> writes:
>> Yes, but this isn't a rescue floppy. It's the install floppy. Right now just
>> getting the tools which are required for install to fit is a major
>> difficulty when ed is sitting out there at over 100k.
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>> Plus the floppy still has sed on it so there is editing capabilities still.
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>I've used ed countless times while installing. "Really."

Only on a multi-floppy set or from a rescue floppy then (using x86 as an
example). I'll also guess that it was because you decided to install by hand
in some way way then as apposed to using sysinst. While these are nice, they
certainly aren't requirements for installing (the -small and -tiny floppies
on x86 don't have ed and I use -small to install from often when testing).

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>I think we should go for even more boot floppies rather than lose ed.

Or create rescue floppies. The install floppy itself has no need for ed in
order for sysinst to do it's job and create a system. I'll look some more, but
this floppy is pretty full as-is.

James