On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote: > I even tried what you said, Brandon: dpkg -i minicom*.deb > but it gave an error, since it doesn't know where to find the file. > So I tried: dpkg -i /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb, and dpkg replied saying: > dpkg: error processing /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb (--install): > cannot access archive : not a directory > Errors were encountered while processing /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb > > So then I tried dpkg -i /dev/fd0, but I got > dpkg-deb:/dev/fd0' is not a debian format archive > dpkg: error processing /dev/fd0 (--install): > subprocess dpkg-deb--control returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing /dev/fd0
Ok, to get the packages off of the floppy and install you have two choices (do these as root): a) mcopy a:\* .; dpkg -i minicom*.deb b) mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt; cd /mnt; dpkg -i minicom*.deb; cd /; umount /mnt Mtools needs to be installed for the first one. Good luck, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhmit1 | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to an | | actual message is purely accidental. |
