Re: Installing from floppies

[Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>]

On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Adam Klein wrote:

> I'm planning to install Debian from a pile of floppies.  However, there
> are some packages that won't fit on 1 floppy.  How should I do this?

If you have pkzip available, and are really set on using floppies:
1) use pkzip to put the file in a multipart archive
2) follow the unzip man page (involves cating all the files together,
   using zip fix, and finally unzip)

Good luck,
Brandon

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