Re: too big packages?
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, virtanen wrote:
> Anyone knows a cheap way to get debian packages, which are too big for a
> floppy to a computer, which isn't networked and has got only a cdrom
> driver and a floppy disk driver? Is it possible to 'pkzip' deb-packages
> in a dos-machine to make them smaller and 'unzip' them in the
> debian-machine?
A number of compression utilities have the ability to split archives into
floppy-sized parts. The one that I have used most recently is RAR, which
comes in both Linux and DOS flavors. (I got a copy from a cohort of mine,
so I don't know where you would find it.) Note that I was using RAR for
its multivolume capability, not its compression.
I have also been known, in the past, to write short C programs to split a
file up into parts that can be sneakernetted on floppy and then can be
COPYed or cat'ed back into the original file.
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