Kevin -
That'd work; I had this grim problem. If fact (beware: tale of
hardship :-) to install most of my Debian system, I had to sneakernet
the .deb files via msdos floppies from a _Mac_ with net access, and
which could only fit ~850K on the disks. So, I ran 'split' on them on
my unix ISP fir
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> use a cable to transfer the files to the laptop from the machine with
> the cdrom. Dont forget to use a proper cable setup...
>
> It'll save your ass a ton-o-time. and you wont have to be splitting
> files across floppies.
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
> > Why are there always utilities to do this?
> >
> > What would happen if I wrote a simple program to output the file in volumes
> > of a certain size, and then used "cat" to stick em end to end?
>
> that works. I had to do this a few times.
I actu
> Why are there always utilities to do this?
>
> What would happen if I wrote a simple program to output the file in volumes
> of a certain size, and then used "cat" to stick em end to end?
that works. I had to do this a few times.
If you already have a unix somwehere, that simple program alre
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote:
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>
> You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This requires
> dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of this. If you
> created a (relatively minimal) linux partition on your cdrom machine,
> then you could split the .deb fil
with all of these solutions running around, did we ask if he will still
have a dos partion? if he will, just get the files onto that, mount the
partion, and instaalll . . .
> Andreas Kerzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > "Steve" == Steve Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
Steve> You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This
Steve> requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
Steve> this. If you created a (relatively min
> Fritz Ilg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed
> on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install
> DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail-
> able with this Laptop whi
> > "Steve" == Steve Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Steve> You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This
> Steve> requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
> Steve> this. If you created a (relatively minimal) linux partition on
> Steve> your cdrom mac
t; which works great...
BUT - if you dont have xtlink...
MS-DOG provides the software called "interlnk", which does the same
thing - more or less.
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> "Steve" == Steve Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This
Steve> requires dpkg-split, but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of
Steve> this. If you created a (relatively minimal) linux partition on
Steve> your cdrom machine, then y
Fritz Ilg wrote:
>
> Hi Debian Linux users:
>
> I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed
> on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install
> DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail-
> able with this Laptop w
Hi Debian Linux users:
I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed
on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install
DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail-
able with this Laptop which make this attempt impossib
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