Re: Debian Package files ??????
John Hoffmann wrote:
>
> This may sound like a really dumb question and the answer is probably
> stored somewhere in a maze of 2meg readme files, but why are all the
> packages files in the msdos-i386 only 1k? Are these the files I need
> to download to install these packages???? How can all the X-Windows
> files be 1k for debian but up to 5 megs for Slackware? The
> installation guide says that they are links to the Debian archives,
> but as a Linux newbie I'm just curious? I am downloading the
> installation disks now, and would like to install it right away!! I
> just installed Slackware 3.0, but XFree 3.1.2 doesn't support my ATI
> 3D Rage chip, and Linux 1.2.14 doesn't support XFree86 3.2, so since I
> heard that Debian came with XFree86 3.2, I thought I'd give it a try?
>
> Please help this poor college student who has been misguided by the
> world of Windoze 95 :)
>
> John Hoffmann
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I don't know what the msdos-i386 dir contains, but you don't want
it. How are you trying to install Debian? Start by getting the
6 install disks and then use dselect. dselect will get the rest
of the packages you need via ftp.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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