Re: DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks

[billy.chow@eng.ox.ac.uk (Billy Chow)]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Preston <steve@eowyn.gte.com> writes:

Steve> You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big.  This
Steve> requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
Steve> this.  If you created a (relatively minimal) linux partition on
Steve> your cdrom machine, then you could split the .deb files and
Steve> copy them to floppies.

Maybe it's easier to find a MSDOS port of GNU tar and then tar the
required packages on multiple volumes which are then transferrable to
the laptop.

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Billy C.-M. Chow          billy.chow@eng.ox.ac.uk          Debian Linux