>>>>> 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 which make this attempt impossible. > I have one CD-ROM with the DEBIAN Linux distribution on it. As I am able > to run this CD on a Windows-based PC-System WIN95 on a seperat computer I > thought it might be possible to make floppys, like I did with the > Slackware distribution. I soon realized that a lot of files are too large > to fit onto the disk.
> Is there anybody out there ...who can give me some advises how I can > solve this problem. 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 files and copy them to floppies. -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])