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Re: Problem installing minicom



In article <cistron.00b101be4bee$edd43680$454d4486@sysiphus.cs.iupui.edu>,
Michelle Coelho <mcoelho@purdue.edu> wrote:
>O.K..I can't seem to connect to my ISP, so everyone's telling me to use
>minicom. Fine. So I downloaded minicom*.deb DIRECTLY on floppy (Was I
>supposed to rawrite it?)..O.K so I specified 'floppy' as the access method
>in dselect, then the drive as A, and msdos as the drive format. Then dselect
>responded saying:

If you have minicom on a floppy, do:

mount -tvfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
dpkg -i /mnt/minicom_1.xx-x.deb
umount /mnt

... that's all.

Mike.
-- 
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