> Hello, > I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on a 386SL laptop and everything is Ok > for the base system. But now I would like to install some big packages > with big .deb files that don't fit in a single floppy. Is there some > preferred procedure for doing this? > (I have some clues: use a MsDOS partition to install form and dump the > files zipped in several floppies, use some PLIP or SLIP to link to > another computer, but all of these sound a bit hard for me. I'm pretty > sure that somebody else has faced this problem before. Any advice? > Thanks, > Luis Seidel > Dpto. de Física Aplicada > E.T.S.I. Industriales > Universidad Politécnica de Madrid > > I have also installed 1.3.1 on my computer at home. Downloaded the files with ftp on a HP-UNIX machine, used "split" to cut the files in chunks that fits a floppy, at home used mcopy to read the diskettes and then cat file1 file2 file3 >xyz.deb to assemble the chunks to a single file.
You need first to get the "mtools.deb" package from the "othrosfs" distribution directory. With this you can read DOS files from a diskette an thus not need a DOS-partition. Hope it helps somewhat. Gunnar Isaksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAAB Military Aircraft -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
