Re: floppy installation

[Keith Leonard <keithl@gil.net>]

Thanks all for the incredibly fast response, I'll check the ftp sites and 
let you all know if the dselect program works both with the ftp files and 
renamed files.

All your help is much appreciated

Keith

On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Marcel Riedi wrote:

> >> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 07:20:40 -0500 (EST)
> >> From: Keith Leonard <keithl@gil.net>
> >> 
> >> Howdy,
> >> 
> >> just dusted off my old notebook and would like to install debian on 
> >> it. Problem - NO CD. The installation manual mentions (page 52) 
> >> installation of the packages from floppy. The *.deb packages do not 
> >> conform to the DOG 8.3 convention. So, is it safe to copy the file 
> >> changing the names to fit the convention so that they can go on ms-dog 
> >> preformated floppies or is is better to fdformat the disks, set up the 
> >> filesystem and copy the files as is.
> >> 
> >> Any thoughts (non-flaming type) would be appreciated as I would like to 
> >> take debian to work with me.
> >> 
> >> Keith
> >> keithl@gil.net
> 
> I'd say it's safe to rename the deb-files to a dos-conforming name and
> copy them to dos floppies, at least that's what I've always been doing
> without any problems (up to 0.93R6, dpkg 1.0.5).
> 
> There might be problems using dselect for a floppy-install, never
> tried. For me it works with 'dpkg --unpack ...' and 'dpkg --configure
> --auto'.
> 
> Marcel
>