Re: Using dselect with 1.44 floppies

2002-05-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Throwing this back over the fence where more folks can possibly help... On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:48:38PM +0100, Paul Hewson wrote: > >If you're stuck doing the floppy shuffle, check out the split command. > >You can reattach split files with cp file1+file2... filename. > > That's the bit I can

Re: Using dselect with 1.44 floppies

2002-05-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:41:52AM +0100, Paul Hewson wrote: > I can split and cat the few big files manually and put them on the HDD, and > try dpkg - i on them but this gives dependency problems. Do I just force my > way through these and sort the dependencies out in dselect later, or is the

Using dselect with 1.44 floppies

2002-05-24 Thread Paul Hewson
Hi, and sorry for a naff old question but I can't find anything in the archives etc. I have salvaged a rather old machine, and managed to get the basic installation done and so on. However, I can't figure my way round dependencies and installation of files > 1.44 Mb. Assuming that dselect