MN.at.Theater-Fletch-Bizzel@t-online.de (Marco Nuessgen) writes: > Does anybody know how i can uncompress the ".deb" files from the > installation-CDROM? I must install "sed" before I can install Linux. The *.deb files are simple "ar" archives. You can extract their contents with: ar x file.deb Do a "man ar" for more options. Gary