standard vs. enhanced

Forum: HD Install
Topic: standard vs. enhanced
started by: adssse

Posted by adssse on May 18 2005,04:35

When doing the HD Install there is an option for standard or enhanced. I was wondering if someone could tell me what the main differences would be? Thanks in advance.

Posted by mikshaw on May 18 2005,05:04

The enhanced version installs gnu-utils, which replaces busybox as the basic GNU tools.

It looks like one of the mirrors in the script lists dsl-dpkg instead of gnu-utils. I don't know if this was intentional...Belnet HTTP (Belgium)

Posted by adssse on May 19 2005,04:31

Thanks for your response. I did some research on google about busybox and gnu-utils but I am still not sure I know what the differences, benefits, etc. would be. I have always used standard in the past but am interested in advanced install. If someone doesnt mind could you point me towards a good website to further research these or maybe even give me a rundown yourself? Thanks in advance.

Posted by mikshaw on May 19 2005,13:30

Busybox is based on GNU utils. It's purpose was to take the basic GNU tools and embed them into a single tiny file which could be easily transported and used on small systems (such as DSL).

Other than the one-file thing, the difference is that these tools needed to somehow be shrunk....in order to do that some of their features were removed. For example, with a standard install of Top, you can specify the display of a specific user's processes....in Busybox Top has no options. In GNU Free you can specify the output format...not so in Busybox.

So essentially what you have with Busybox is the same set of tools, but much smaller, and less flexible.

Posted by adssse on May 19 2005,13:45

ok, thank you for the explanation