Firstly its best to go from the hard disk partiton.(where windows 95 lives its
type
vfat), just mount harddisk but assume its on the floppy
I assume you mounted the floppy disk drive (vfat for long file names support
in windows 95 dos bull...(; the semicolon is my way to separate what you type
and my comments on what is happening
(eg type the following in linux:
mkdir mnt2 ;to make a directory to mount the diskette
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt2 ;now you can go to the diskette in a: refered
as
mnt2
cd /mnt2 ;or; cd mnt2 ;can't remember
;then dpkg thing
dpkg -i filename.deb ;install btw if you get a error you'll know what
files
you need.
cd ;get back to the home directory
umount /mnt2 ;umnount the device which is a floppy
*****BUT!! mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt2 ;just man mount
to use the harddisk in the first partition rather than copying to a floppy.
Dennis Dixon wrote:
> I have recently installed the Debian Linux O/S on my computer and now need
> to install certain packages to give the system some functionality.
>
> I am afraid the process is not progressing very smoothly. I assume I am
> supposed to use the "dselect" routine. Although I had troubles with it I
> finally got the program to select only one file. (In this case, the "ed"
> file)
>
> I downloaded "ed 0.2-12" onto my hard drive using my Windows 95 partition
> and then copied it to a floppy. When I went to install the program with
> "dselect" it said it couldn't find any .deb files on the floppy.
>
> Since I have no idea what I did wrong my questions are numerous.
> - Was it correct to get "dselect" to select only 1 file?
> - What if the program I want to install isn't on the list in "dselect"?
> - Are there other files that need to be downloaded with it?
> - The downloaded file doesn't have a .deb extension, why not?
> - Is it ok to use Windows 95 to download and to save on a MS-DOS
> formatted floppy?
>
> Anyways, you get the picture. I have no idea what I'm doing. Thanks for
> any help you can pass on.
>
> What I really need I think is to download the appropriate ftp software so
> that I don't have to use Windows 95 as a middleman. Which software would
> accomplish this?
>
> Thanks again.
> -
> Dennis Dixon
> P.O. Box 1896
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