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Re: DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks



On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote:

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


Why are there always utilities to do this?

What would happen if I wrote a simple program to output the file in volumes
of a certain size, and then used "cat" to stick em end to end?


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