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Re: Installing from disk



In a message dated 6/7/99 9:11:44 AM Central Daylight Time, xyf@inetnebr.com 
writes:

> This may or may not help you but I just ran across it in "debian-faq-8"  
>  
>  
>  dpkg-split
>  
>  This program splits large package into smaller files (e.g., for writing
>  onto a set of floppy disks), and can also
>  be used to merge a set of split files back into a single file. It can
>  only be used on a Debian system, since it
>  calls the program dpkg-deb to parse the debian package file into its
>  component records. For example, to split
>  a big .deb file into N parts, 

The problem is that I'm downloading on a Win95 machine...I don't think i can 
get dpkg to work on this machine...  I need to see if I can find a utility 
that works on both 95 and linux (yeah right)

Colin Winters


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