Re: A newbie chicken and egg question

1998-04-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hi, > What I need are the list of dependencies for manpages, the manpages > binary, how to install manpages and the same for HAMM (ie ppp dialup). > If I dload them to win95 partition, I can split them into 1.44mb chunks, > transfer them to the linux partition, stitch them back together again > an

Re: A newbie chicken and egg question

1998-04-18 Thread John
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >if you have a vfat filesystem for windows: I should have mentioned that the windows partition is compressed, sorry, therefore linux can't read it directly. This is why I need a base system capable of dialup ppp and manpages s

Re: A newbie chicken and egg question

1998-04-17 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:33:52AM +0100, John wrote: > Hello > > I have debian stable (base only) installed on a 400mb partition on my > laptop. I am trying to install manpages so that I may look up answers to > the questions I may have (like configuring to facilitate an ftp install > via ppp of

A newbie chicken and egg question

1998-04-17 Thread John
Hello I have debian stable (base only) installed on a 400mb partition on my laptop. I am trying to install manpages so that I may look up answers to the questions I may have (like configuring to facilitate an ftp install via ppp of additional components). What I am trying to do is to download th