The person maintaining boot-floppies also thinks that the following packages should be installed. These are not, however, essential:
◼ lynx
◼ debiandoc-sgml
◼ unzip
When you select boot-floppies, dselect brings up the conflict resolution screen. You’ll notice that all the required packages have been selected.
Pressing the R key puts things back to the starting point.
EIOM Pri Section Package Description
__ Opt admin boot-floppie Scripts to create the Debian
__ Opt devel newt0.25-dev Developer’s toolkit for newt
__ Opt devel slang1-dev The S-Lang programming library
__ Opt devel slang1-pic The S-Lang programming library
If you decide now that you don’t want boot-floppies, just press Enter.
Pressing the D key puts things the way I selected them in the first place:
EIOM Pri Section Package Description
_* Opt admin boot-floppie Scripts to create the Debian
__ Opt devel newt0.25-dev Developer’s toolkit for newt
__ Opt devel slang1-dev The S-Lang programming library
__ Opt devel slang1-pic The S-Lang programming library
Pressing the U key restores dselect’s selections: