Re: [Q] file format?
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Le Tran wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just downloaded the boot, root, and base disks. I wrote them out to
> floppies using rawrite2. My question: when I download other packages,
> what program do I use to write them out to floppies? rawrite2 or copy
Once you have the base system installed you should not need to write the
rest of the packages to a floppy. If you use DOS to download them, you
only need mount the dos partition and install them directly from there.
> or tar? Another related quesion. The file extension of debian binary
> files is .deb, how were they generated?
The .deb files are package files created by the dpkg collection of tools.
After you install the dpkg package take a look at the documentation in
/usr/doc/dpkg policy.html and programmer.html for instructions on how to
use these tools.
Luck,
Dwarf
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