Re: Using Dselect With ZIP drives

[Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>]

> I think I figured it out. I have been downloading the packages stright to
> my HD and then copying them to my ZIP drive (on another comp) then I take
> the ZIP drive and use it to run the packages, I think that I just haven't
> copied those packages yet. What I did was put the packages file in the root
> dir and then just copy the folder names to the root dir e.g.:
> 
> ZIP-100-
>         |
>         Packages
>         |
>         admin
>         |
>         x11
> 
> I think you get the idea, do you think this should work?

Actually, you don't need all those admin/editord/x11 etc. directories,
just  

ZIP/

   main/
        Packages.gz
        *.deb
   contrib/
        Packages.gz
        *.deb
   non-free/
        Packages.gz
        *.deb
*Make sure you have all those Pakages.gz files*

Hope this helps.

Alex Y.

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