Date: Tue, 1 Feb 94 03:41:08 EST
From: quinlan@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu (Daniel Quinlan)
Subject: disk division guidelines v1.1
[ Please read this message to the end. You may find this rather
interesting. This is the last post I will be sending to the old
mailing list location. ]
This is the corrected listing on how to arrange Debian 0.91 packages
in the best possible way:
The contraints were:
1. To minimize the number of disks used.
2. To place the most possible space on one single disk rather than
spreading it out.
If you use a filesystem which sets blocks aside for root and you
aren't copying these as root, set the number of blocks for root to
zero.
We are fairly sure we corrected for both of the problems reported to
the mailing list so these should be a lot safer than the last shot.
Still, because we made them safe for every Linux filesystem, they
won't pack as well as the last time. If you have a disk error that
significantly reduces the size of your diskette, expect problems, many
of these disks are filled to within 50k of capacity.
Here is the same type of listing that I gave last time, a scheme based
on categories (listing both the 1.2 and 1.44 MB floppy sizes):
1.44 MB
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DEVEL:
1 : flex.deb gcc1.deb ncurses.deb
2 : bison.deb gcc2.deb libc.deb
3 : linuxsrc.deb m4.deb make.deb
4 : xtralib.deb gdb.deb binutil.deb rcs.deb
5 : tcl.deb libgpp.deb inc.deb
DOC:
1 : xtraman.deb info.deb doc.deb groff.deb man.deb
EMACS:
1 : emcselz2.deb emcsinfo.deb
2 : emcselc1.deb emcsmisc.deb
3 : emcsetc.deb emcsxyes.deb emcselc2.deb
4 : emcselz1.deb
5 : emcsxno.deb (dependent on filesystem used -- 4 is usually possible)
GHOSTSCRIPT:
1 : gsmisc.deb gsfonts1.deb svgalib.deb gsxyes.deb
2 : gsfonts2.deb gsxno.deb
ISPELL:
1 : igerman.deb ienglish.deb idanish.deb
2 : ifrench.deb ispell.deb
NET:
1 : net.deb uucp.deb smail.deb elm.deb
2 : mailx.deb (dependent on filesystem used -- 1 is usually possible)
UTIL:
1 : tcsh.deb pcomm.deb perl.deb less.deb sudo.deb diff.deb
shar.deb file.deb bc.deb mtools.deb
2 : patch.deb uuencode.deb time.deb quota.deb kermit.deb
WORDS:
1 : wnorwegn.deb wfrench.deb
2 : wswedish.deb words.deb wspanish.deb wgerman.deb witalian.deb
wdanish.deb
X11:
1 : tk.deb
2 : xfnt1.deb
3 : xdoc.deb xman.deb xlib.deb
4 : xbin.deb
5 : xfnt2.deb
6 : xprg.deb
XSERVERS:
1 : xvga16.deb xs3.deb xmach32.deb
2 : xsvga.deb x8514.deb xmach8.deb
3 : xmono.deb
Total: 30 disks
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1.2 MB
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DEVEL:
1 : flex.deb gcc1.deb ncurses.deb
2 : bison.deb gcc2.deb libc.deb
3 : tcl.deb libgpp.deb inc.deb
4 : linuxsrc.deb m4.deb make.deb
5 : xtralib.deb gdb.deb binutil.deb rcs.deb
DOC:
1 : xtraman.deb info.deb doc.deb groff.deb man.deb
EMACS:
1 : emcselz2.deb emcsinfo.deb
2 : emcselc1.deb emcsmisc.deb
3 : emcsetc.deb emcsxyes.deb emcselc2.deb
4 : emcselz1.deb
5 : emcsxno.deb
GHOSTSCRIPT:
1 : gsfonts2.deb gsxno.deb
2 : gsmisc.deb gsfonts1.deb svgalib.deb gsxyes.deb
ISPELL:
1 : igerman.deb ienglish.deb idanish.deb
2 : ifrench.deb ispell.deb
NET:
1 : net.deb uucp.deb smail.deb elm.deb
2 : mailx.deb
UTIL:
1 : tcsh.deb pcomm.deb perl.deb less.deb sudo.deb
diff.deb shar.deb file.deb bc.deb mtools.deb
2 : patch.deb uuencode.deb time.deb quota.deb kermit.deb
WORDS:
1 : wnorwegn.deb wfrench.deb
2 : wswedish.deb words.deb wspanish.deb wgerman.deb
witalian.deb wdanish.deb
X11:
1 : tk.deb
2 : xfnt1.deb
3 : xdoc.deb xman.deb xlib.deb
4 : xbin.deb
5 : xfnt2.deb
6 : xprg.deb
XSERVERS:
1 : xvga16.deb xs3.deb xmach32.deb
2 : xsvga.deb x8514.deb xmach8.deb
3 : xmono.deb
Total: 32 disks
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Seems like a lot of disks.
Here is a arrangement which allows packages to mix with different
types (devel with x11, etc.)
1.44 MB
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ALL:
1 : emcsmisc.deb igerman.deb
2 : ienglish.deb ifrench.deb kermit.deb inc.deb xmono.deb
3 : xs3.deb net.deb svgalib.deb xman.deb
4 : xmach32.deb xmach8.deb wfrench.deb info.deb
5 : gsfonts1.deb emcsetc.deb bison.deb
6 : xprg.deb doc.deb xdoc.deb rcs.deb
7 : xtralib.deb tcsh.deb ncurses.deb gsmisc.deb
uuencode.deb time.deb
8 : gcc2.deb gsxyes.deb gsxno.deb
9 : words.deb man.deb ispell.deb emcselz1.deb
10 : xvga16.deb wdanish.deb libc.deb sudo.deb smail.deb wswedish.deb
11 : emcselc1.deb libgpp.deb emcsxno.deb less.deb
12 : quota.deb idanish.deb wnorwegn.deb diff.deb binutil.deb xlib.deb
13 : gcc1.deb make.deb patch.deb
14 : wspanish.deb elm.deb xbin.deb
15 : mtools.deb (smallest disk?)
16 : x8514.deb xfnt2.deb shar.deb
17 : gsfonts2.deb emcsxyes.deb flex.deb
18 : tk.deb witalian.deb xsvga.deb
19 : uucp.deb perl.deb emcsinfo.deb
20 : emcselc2.deb wgerman.deb tcl.deb m4.deb
21 : linuxsrc.deb mailx.deb pcomm.deb bc.deb
22 : xtraman.deb gdb.deb emcselz2.deb
23 : groff.deb xfnt1.deb file.deb
Total: 23 disks. Savings == 7 disks.
This is *the* way to do it even if you aren't going to install it all.
I might have been able to get this down to 22 if I let it run for
another hour. :-)
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1.2 MB
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ALL:
1 : xvga16.deb tcsh.deb emcselc2.deb
2 : diff.deb libgpp.deb xs3.deb x8514.deb
3 : xfnt1.deb wnorwegn.deb info.deb
4 : emcsetc.deb emcselc1.deb
5 : xmono.deb time.deb idanish.deb
6 : gcc1.deb
7 : emcselz2.deb kermit.deb xtraman.deb
8 : tcl.deb groff.deb rcs.deb
9 : linuxsrc.deb
10 : igerman.deb ncurses.deb gsxno.deb
11 : perl.deb binutil.deb ifrench.deb
12 : tk.deb wdanish.deb
13 : xfnt2.deb witalian.deb
14 : ienglish.deb wfrench.deb xman.deb less.deb
15 : emcsxno.deb gsfonts1.deb
16 : uucp.deb mailx.deb xmach32.deb emcsxyes.deb
17 : mtools.deb xtralib.deb wspanish.deb
18 : gcc2.deb words.deb
19 : xlib.deb svgalib.deb xdoc.deb sudo.deb gsxyes.deb man.deb
20 : emcsinfo.deb pcomm.deb emcsmisc.deb
21 : make.deb bison.deb wgerman.deb xsvga.deb
22 : net.deb xmach8.deb ispell.deb inc.deb quota.deb file.deb
shar.deb
23 : libc.deb m4.deb uuencode.deb xbin.deb
24 : gsmisc.deb gdb.deb doc.deb bc.deb flex.deb wswedish.deb
25 : emcselz1.deb patch.deb
26 : smail.deb xprg.deb
27 : elm.deb gsfonts2.deb
Total: 27 disks. Savings == 5 disks.
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Come to your own conclusions, but I think that the above offers
significant savings over the other more organized way. It is not
likely that either solution could be reduced more than one more disk.
This is certainly the way that one would want to distribute disks.
Even assuming that you don't get everything you still don't lose out.
I got 23 disks arranged in the "old" way. I left out most of the X
servers, any language I didn't know, and even put "words" and "ispell"
togther. I could have just done the above and saved myself a lot of
trouble.
If there are any errors please report them so the can be fixed.
(Don't give me all of the credit for this stuff, most should go to
Frank Koko and Jeffrey Wescott.)
Dan
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Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu>
