Re: deselect

["G.V.Livingston II" <gvl@usa.net>]

  I know the ZIP drive mounts properly with "-tmsdos" so I'm not sure what 
fs it 'really' has on it.  I'm going to test mounting it with "-tvfat" 
tonight.  I do have vfat support in linux but my original problem stems 
from the fact that the home machine doesn't have Win/95 on it, so I can't 
just copy the files from the work machine to the home machine using long 
filenames unless the ZIP supports VFAT also and I copy directly to the 
linux partitions.  

   I'd still rather install from the DOS partition because I have 100+meg 
free over there.  So I guess I'd really rather know how to set up the 
'Packages' files and run deselect from a directory structure totally 
inconsistent with the original Debian mirrors.

On  9 May 97 at 17:53, Rick Jones wrote:

> 
> Did you put VFAT in the kernel so dselect can read the partition
> correctly?
> 
> On Fri, 9 May 1997, G.V.Livingston II wrote:
> 
> >   If I plan to use the deselect  program to  install packages from a 
> > mounted MSDOS partition (mounted at /e) and I have the packages in 
> > /e/linux/stable, /e/linux/contrib, & /e/linux/non-free should I edit the 
> > 'Packages" files to refelect the new path information?  Or will deselect 
> > figure it out when I do the "step by step" entry of file locations?
> > 
> > 
> >    I'm going to try thie install from scratch tonight and see if I can 
> > mount the ZIP disk I'm carrying the stuff home with (ftp via T1 from work 
> > move to ZIP disks carry home) with a VFAT fs since I am using it under 
> > Win/95 at work it may work, and allow me to use long filenames.
Gerald V. Livingston II

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