On 15-Dec-98, Lyndon Fletcher took time to write :
> Hi all,
> I have a number of small problems getting Debian packages onto my
> PC. Ok, for a start the machine has an unrecognised CDROM type and
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the OSes don't recognize it ? or you don't recognize it ?
you should at least know if it's an ide one, a scsi one, or one hooked up a
sound card.
so what it is ?
> second it has a limited HD size (~360Mb). I can't do anything about
> either of these problems at the moment and would like some advice for
> working around my problems.
>
> I managed to install by leaving a small 30MB dos partition on the
> machine and copying the base distribution and install files into it via
from where did you do your copy ? the cd ?
then if the dos sees the cdrom, linux should see it also !
> DOS. This allowed me to get the basic system loaded.
>
>
> My problem is how to load the rest of the packages. I have a couple of
> ideas and would like to know the answers to a few specific questions.
>
> 1) Idea 1
>
> I could copy a few packages at a time onto the 30Mb Dos drive and
> install from there.
>
> Question 1 --- To run dselect do I only need the .deb files or do I need
> the "packages" files too?
yes you need the packages files, otherwise dslect won't know anything about
what is present and what it is.
> Question 2 --- If I do need the "packages" file do I have to edit it to
> reflect the actual path to the .deb files?
manual edition ? strongly discouraged !
...
> Hope that you can send me some answers... I've been pulling my hair out
> over this all week.
i think what you could be easier for you is just to unplug the cdrom drive
from the win95 and to plug it in your machine.
why aren't you doing this ?
it's simpler !
Patrick
