I have an "antique" Pentium-100 laptop I am trying to turn into a NAT/proxy/router for a home LAN.
However, the laptop does not like the 7-CD set I burned. The first three CDs were burned on different media and do work, but the last four are totally unreadable. Meanwhile my Win 98 box reads all 7 CDs just fine. I am able to establish network connectivity between them, so at this point the plan is to set up an FTP server in Win98 and make the files available over the LAN to the laptop. The debian CD FAQ at http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ suggests this for installing on "many interconnected computers", but the FAQ does not say exactly how to go about doing it. Can I simply make a debian/ directory, and just copy them all into the same tree, saying "yes" to any overwrite warnings? Or will this screw up the package information? Or, if I just make a bunch of separate CD directories on the FTP server, will dselect be smart enough to know which directory paths to use to find a particular package? For example.. /debian/cd2/ /debian/cd3/ /debian/cd4/ (etc) Maybe I need "unjigdo".. where can I get a copy? :)
