In reply to the honourable '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' who said:

> Debian is already lambasted for needing more disks than anyone else.
i follow the discussions constantly between redhat, slackware and debian 
distributions and have not heard one person comment on debian being too large.
downloading six megabytes doesnt take that long B)

> What is on the base disks is dpkg-ftp (it uses perl's Net::FTP, not

ftp is essential if dpkg-ftp or dselect didnt work properly (which it didnt) or 
is 
unfamiliar with it, at least it gives the person installing a familiar tool.
the last disk in the debian 1.2 set is approximately 350k so there is room on 
there 
for ftp surely, maybe we can have a v1.21 that remedies this. 

perhaps i imagined it but a previous installation of debian 0.93 ? had ftp in 
it and 
its a shame it was taken out imho.

cheers

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