slink newbie tries to dpkg
I'm the newbie who just got slink base up on a floppy only system. I am
trying to get some packages installed, and must be missing something.
I tried to start installing the admin packages, so I picked cron from the
following URL:
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/admin/
I downloaded this from an NT box (hiss hiss, its my mandatory desktop at
work). Then I tried issued the command:
dpkg --install cron_3.0pl1-50.2.deb
After which I received this error:
dpkg-split: error reading cron_3.0pl1-50.2.deb: Input/output error
dpkg: error processing cron_3.0pl1-50.2.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
cron_3.0pl1-50.2.deb
From my attempts to RTFM, it seems that this file is split into pieces and
needs to be joined. But, if that is correct, why cant I find another piece
in that directory.
I would appreciate help if anyone has been through this before.
TIA,
Darryl
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