Re: Problem installing minicom
"Michelle Coelho" 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:
>
...
>Insert a disk containing a Packages file, or type q to quit.
dselect is intended for selecting packages from an entire distribution
...
>So I tried: dpkg -i /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb, and dpkg replied saying:
/dev/fd0 is a raw disk device; all you can do with it is read or write
a stream of raw sector data. You need to mount the filesystem on it,
like this:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
The files on the floppy are now visible in the /mnt directory...
>Could someone tell me how to install minicom and/or wvdial from floppy?
...and...
>>> If it's not too much to ask..could you tell me step-wise how I should
>>> install minicom.
>>
>>One step: dpkg -i minicom*.deb
... you can now do:
dpkg -i /mnt/minicom*.deb
(All the above must be done as superuser, of course.)
If the floppy disk is DOS formatted, rather than Win95 formatted, use
`mount -t msdos' instead of `mount -t vfat'; in this case, the filename
may be wrong (limited to 8.3 characters) so use `ls /mnt' to see what it
actually is.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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