> Anyone knows a cheap way to get debian packages, which are too big for a > floppy to a computer, which isn't networked and has got only a cdrom > driver and a floppy disk driver? Is it possible to 'pkzip' deb-packages > in a dos-machine to make them smaller and 'unzip' them in the > debian-machine?
> Is it possible to format 1.44 meg floppies into bigger ones so that a > (win)do(w)s- and the debian-machine both can read the floppies? > > What about dividing deb-packages into smaller pieces? Which kind of > software can handle this from a dos-machine into the debian-machine? IF nothing else, you can download the .debs, and boot the dos machine from a rescue disk or tom's unix (probably the better choice), and use "split" to break the files into disk-sized chunks. Use superformat to make 1992k disks if both machines will read/write these well (the machine would have to be ancient for the drive to not physically support them; seems to me that they (and the diskettes) have been nominally 2M since Sony first shipped them. Once they're to the other machine, use "cat" to put them back together: cat xa* > abc.deb and you're in business --
