All of this is in the base package, plus I added

netbase, netstd, xbase, xserver-s3, all the xfnt packages, cpp, and xlib6

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  adduser         3.6            Add users and groups to the system.
ii  ae              962-14         Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen edito
ii  base-files      1.3.5          Debian Base System Miscellaneous Files
ii  base-passwd     1.3.1          
ii  bash            2.0-3          The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  bsdutils        3.1.3          Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite.
ii  ckermit         192-4          A serial and network communications package.
ii  cpp             2.7.2.1-9      The GNU C preprocessor (ELF version).
ii  debianutils     1.5            Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
ii  dialog          0.9a-10        Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from she
ii  diff            2.7-13         File comparison utilities
ii  dpkg            1.4.0.8        Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
ii  dpkg-ftp        1.4.9          Ftp method for dselect.
ii  e2fsprogs       1.10-2         The EXT2 file system utilities.
ii  elvis-tiny      1.4-3          Tiny vi compatible editor for the base syste
ii  fdflush         1.0.0-7        A disk-flushing program.
ii  fileutils       3.16-2         GNU file management utilities.
ii  findutils       4.1-22         utilities for finding files--find, xargs, an
ii  getty           1.45a-3        agetty, an alternative Linux getty
ii  grep            2.0-11         GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
ii  gzip            1.2.4-15       The GNU compression utility.
ii  hostname        2.01           A utility to set/show the host name or domai
ii  isapnptools     1.9-1          ISA Plug-And-Play configuration utilities.
ii  kbd             0.92-3.1       Linux console font and keytable utilities.
ii  ldso            1.8.12-1       The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit
ii  libc5           5.4.33-6       The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr
ii  libdb1          1.85.4-4       The Berkeley database routines (runtime vers
ii  libgdbm1        1.7.3-19       GNU dbm database routines (runtime version).
ii  libnet          1.01-3         Implementation of Internet protocols for Per
ii  libreadline2    2.1-2          GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
ii  lilo            19-2           LInux LOader - Loads Linux from the hard dis
ii  login           961025-2       Sign on to the system.
ii  make            3.75-4         The GNU version of the "make" utility.
ii  makedev         1.6-16         Creates special device files in /dev.
ii  mawk            1.3.3-1        a pattern scanning and text processing langu
ii  mbr             1.0.0-5        Master Boot Record for IBM-PC compatible com
ii  modconf         0.2.12         Device Driver Configuration
ii  modutils        2.1.34-5a      Linux module utilities.
ii  mount           2.6d-1         Tools for mounting and manipulating filesyst
ii  ncurses-base    1.9.9e-1       Video terminal manipulation: Minimum set of 
ii  ncurses-bin     1.9.9e-1       Video terminal manipulation: associated prog
ii  ncurses3.0      1.9.9e-1       Video terminal manipulation: shared librarie
ii  netbase         2.16-1         Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
ii  netstd          2.16-1         Networking binaries and daemons for Linux
ii  passwd          961025-2       Change and administer password and group dat
ii  ppp             2.2.0f-23      Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon.
ii  procps          1.12.2         The /proc file system utilities.
ii  sed             2.05-12        The GNU sed stream editor.
ii  setserial       2.12-2         Controls configuration of serial ports.
ii  shellutils      1.16-2b        The GNU shell programming utilities.
ii  sysklogd        1.3-17         Kernel and system logging daemons
ii  sysvinit        2.71-2         System-V like init.
ii  tar             1.11.8-11      GNU tar
ii  textutils       1.22-1         The GNU text file processsing utilities.
ii  timezone        7.55-2         Data files needed to set your local time
ii  update          1.2-1          daemon to periodically flush filesystem buff
ii  util-linux      2.5-12         Miscellaneous system utilities.
ii  xbase           3.3-4          Local clients and configuration required by 
ii  xext            3.3-4          Extensions to X servers
ii  xfnt100         3.3-4          100dpi fonts for X servers
ii  xfnt75          3.3-4          75dpi fonts for X servers
ii  xfntbase        3.3-4          Standard fonts for X servers
ii  xfntbig         3.3-4          Large fonts for X servers
ii  xfntcyr         3.3-4          Cyrillic fonts for X servers
ii  xfntil2         1.0.2          ISO 8859-2 fonts for X servers
ii  xfntpex         3.3-4          Minimal fonts for PEX support in X servers
ii  xfntscl         3.3-4          Scalable fonts for X servers
ii  xlib6           3.3-4          Shared libraries required by X clients
ii  xserver-s3      3.3-4          X server for S3-based graphics cards