Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-08 Thread Lazar Fleysher
hi There is tar.exe tar for dos. You can create a multi volume tar archive with tar for dos and then untar it on your linux machine. I do not remember where I got tar.exe from though... Maybe there is such a thing as gnu-tar for dos... It is not much, but maybe it helps... ZORO On Mon

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Steve Rennell
[linux via floppy?] > The problem is that I'm downloading on a Win95 machine...I don't think i > can get dpkg to work on this machine... I need to see if I can find a > utility that works on both 95 and linux (yeah right) I downloaded on a (separate) Win95 machine, pulled one of the (non ext) H

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that I'm downloading on a Win95 machine...I don't think i can > get dpkg to work on this machine... I need to see if I can find a utility > that works on both 95 and linux (yeah right) > > Colin Winters well, you _could_ use rar. but it´s shareware, yo

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Morgoth3
The problem is that I killed Win95 completely...my system is linux only right now. Colin Winters

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Morgoth3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is that I'm downloading on a Win95 machine...I don't > think i can get dpkg to work on this machine... I need to see if I > can find a utility that works on both 95 and linux (yeah right) Then try pkzip in Win95 and zip/unzip from the zip/unz

Re: Installing from disk

1999-06-07 Thread Morgoth3
In a message dated 6/7/99 9:11:44 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This may or may not help you but I just ran across it in "debian-faq-8" > > > dpkg-split > > This program splits large package into smaller files (e.g., for writing > onto a set of floppy disks), an

Installing from disk

1999-06-06 Thread Morgoth3
I'm installing my debian system from floppy disk, since I cannot use internet, due to having an AOL account (stupid parents.) Is there a way I can take large files and get them onto floppy disks? Even compressing some files wouldn't allow them to be transferred, and I was wondering if there wa