muLinux (was: [techtalk] Install from floppies)

1999-11-17 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
Am 11/18/99, 1:49:54 AM, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Check out mulinux.firenze.linux.it. The ''muLinux'' homepage has moved to another (faster!) place recently, please have a look at the brandnew 7.1 release: http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/ By booting muLinux you should easily be a

[techtalk] shameless plug, and a call for contributors

1999-11-17 Thread Deb Richardson
Hi all. As some of you may know, I run another open-source related project called the Open Source Writers Group (http://www.oswg.org). If I seem a little distant at times, it's probably because I'm drowning in a sea of markup and writing :) Many people in LinuxChix are extremely knowledgable wh

Re: [techtalk] Install from floppies

1999-11-17 Thread Wendy_Winslow
Check out mulinux.firenze.linux.it. wendy "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/17/99 01:55:44 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(Wendy Winslow/HQ/3Com) Subject: [techtalk] Install from floppies Have been followin

Re: [techtalk] Install from floppies

1999-11-17 Thread Tamara Thompson
I had to install linux on a box without a CDROM, it turned out to be easy enough to nfs mount a CD on another box, and install over the network. >>> "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/17 2:55 PM >>> Have been following the thread on splitting files to floppy. Would this work to split the installa

[techtalk] Install from floppies

1999-11-17 Thread J B
Have been following the thread on splitting files to floppy. Would this work to split the installation files? Or, is there a specific way to create floppy disks to do an install on a machine wihtout a CD-Rom? I have an old 486 that I am considering setting up, and it does not have a CD, and

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 17-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] Tar file spl.. by Vinnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I guess split would work, but I"m not sure that it would work after > compressing (a tar file of ascii files is mostly ascii [completely? I > don't actually know the file format standard, this is just w

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread Vinnie Chassot
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Xavier Gutierrez Munoz wrote: > Sorry for asking such a newbie's question but I don't know how to split a > tar file to fit a set of floppies. I just want to get my october's read > mail out of the server via ftp but I want to pack and compress it before I > do that. -M crea

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread Jenn V.
coder wrote: > > ad infinitum. Obviously a script to do this would be usefull, however I > dont have one at my disposal, and writing code after 4am violates some > law of nature... ;) I thought it was a law of nature that you only /really/ start getting into coding after 4am? Jenn V. --

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread Matthias Holschneider
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Xavier Gutierrez Munoz wrote: > > Sorry for asking such a newbie's question but I don't know how to split a > tar file to fit a set of floppies. I just want to get my october's read > mail out of the server via ftp but I want to pack and compress it before I > do that. > >

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread franzoni
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, coder wrote: > Ex: > > cat foo_aa >> foo.tar; > cat foo_ab >> foo.tar; > cat foo_ac >> foo.tar; you can only use cat foo_* > foo.tar (they're in alphabetical order) Eugenia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread franzoni
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Xavier Gutierrez Munoz wrote: > Sorry for asking such a newbie's question but I don't know how to split a > tar file to fit a set of floppies. I just want to get my october's read > mail out of the server via ftp but I want to pack and compress it before I > do that. you can

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread Jenn V.
Xavier Gutierrez Munoz wrote: > > Sorry for asking such a newbie's question but I don't know how to split a > tar file to fit a set of floppies. I just want to get my october's read > mail out of the server via ftp but I want to pack and compress it before I > do that. > > Alternative is downl

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread coder
No problem, we only charge $5 for newbie questionz ;) you could use split. man split for more detailz (of course) Ex: split -b 1024k big_file.tar little_file_prefix If you big file was 10 meg, then 10 little files with the prefix of 'little_file_prefix' would be generated. The sequence at t

[techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread Xavier Gutierrez Munoz
Sorry for asking such a newbie's question but I don't know how to split a tar file to fit a set of floppies. I just want to get my october's read mail out of the server via ftp but I want to pack and compress it before I do that. Alternative is downloading it and compressing later using WINZIP (