--- disciple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> it in debian which showed it as .gz.

It's probably a tar and a gzipped image. The "file" command can help you
there.
 
> Since I can see the file in debian, I should be able to extract and 
> install.... right?  How do I get the file from the floppy disk to the 
> hard drive on my debian box?

mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
cp ./foo.tar.gz /tmp
cd /tmp && tar xzvf ./foo.tar.gz

(adapt as appropriate)

-- Thomas Adam

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