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Re: Installing large packages from DOS formatted diskette



> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I am a newbie to Debian. Recently I installed Debian 1.3 on my PC from
> diskettes. It is working fine. However I downloaded some Debain packages
> which are larger than 1.44M (diskette size). How can I install these
> packages? I have DOS/Windows tools like pkzip, arj, gzip but I am not
> sure how to decompress it to a Linux partition on my hard disk. 
>   My guess is that I need a DOS partition but I couldn't create one
> using the Rescue Disk. BTW, which type of DOS partition do I create?
> FAT12, FAT16, etc.. 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Chee Seng
> (csgnoh@singwnt.sing.ingr.com)
> 
> 
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