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Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...



"James A. Bates" <beckster@ballistic.com> writes:

>    I have a 4.0 GB drive running Windows95 and a 514 MB drive with =
> Debian (no packages installed yet, just the base). The 514 MB is a slave =
> to the 4 GB. I downloaded several packages onto my Windows drive =
> (C:\Debian), but I haven't a clue how to get them to install into Linux. =
> How can I mount the drives from dselect? I'm VERY new to this so any =
> in-depth/detailed help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I don't use dselect, but here is how root can mount your C: drive:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt

So at this point Linux will see your packages in the /mnt/debian directory.

Bake


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