Re: Installing packages from an MSDOS partition

1996-11-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > You can pull the entire archive on to a straight MSDOS partition. That's > why we provide an MSDOS area on the FTP system. After you get the system > running, install dpkg-1.4.x.x.deb by hand, and then run > "dpkg-scanpackages" on all of those packages. Yo

Installing packages from an MSDOS partition

1996-11-08 Thread Bruce Perens
You can pull the entire archive on to a straight MSDOS partition. That's why we provide an MSDOS area on the FTP system. After you get the system running, install dpkg-1.4.x.x.deb by hand, and then run "dpkg-scanpackages" on all of those packages. You can then use dselect to select and install them