I guess I didn't answer the question about the base disks. They are a gzip-compressed tar archive taken from the file base1_3.tgz (also available on our FTP archive). The archive is split into floppy-sized pieces and a 512-byte header is put on each floppy. The program that does this is floppy-split in the boot-floppies package.
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