Svar: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #501

[Gunnar.Isaksson@saab.se]

> Hello,	
> I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on a 386SL laptop and everything is Ok
> for the base system. But now I would like to install some big packages
> with big .deb files that don't fit in a single floppy. Is there some
> preferred procedure for doing this?
>  (I have some clues: use a MsDOS partition to install form and dump the
> files zipped in several floppies, use some PLIP or SLIP to link to
> another computer, but all of these sound a bit hard for me. I'm pretty
> sure that somebody else has faced this problem before. Any advice?
> Thanks,
> Luis Seidel
> Dpto. de Física Aplicada
> E.T.S.I. Industriales
> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
> 
> 
I have also installed 1.3.1 on my computer at home. Downloaded the files
with ftp on a HP-UNIX machine, used "split" to cut the files in chunks
that fits a floppy, at home used mcopy to read the diskettes and
then    cat file1 file2 file3 >xyz.deb      to assemble the chunks to a single file.

You need first to get the "mtools.deb" package from the "othrosfs" distribution directory.
With this you can read DOS files from a diskette an thus not need a DOS-partition.

Hope it helps somewhat.

Gunnar Isaksson
gunnar.isaksson@saab.se
SAAB Military Aircraft



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