Re: floppy installation

[luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Luis Francisco Gonzalez Hernandez)]

Hi,
I haven't used this myself so someone else may want to correct this.
I recall reading some weeks ago that the msdos dirs in the debian ftp 
mirrors contained 8.3 filenames for the usual debian packages.

Luis.

> [...]
> 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.
> [...]
> Keith
> keithl@gil.net
> 
>