>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.


ustarfs?  having no really useful editor (sed is WAY hard to edit
disklabels with) on the install media is way dumb IMO.


it seems to be far too common that we remove truly useful features
of our install media because they always get "too large".  sigh.