Hello, > I wish to load some package files onto a laptop that has no CD-ROM drive and > is not networked. Some of the .deb files are 2+MB and I can compress them > using PKZIP,Winzip or rar but can linux unzip from spanned floppy disks? Any > suggestions?
I wouldn't think the .deb files would really compress... After all, they're mostly compressed already (a deb file consists of three parts, two of which are compressed; the other is four bytes long). The unzip package doesn't do disk spanning. OTOH, if you can find a way of splitting the .deb into pieces, you can then easily put it back together again with "cat part1 part2 > xyzzy.deb". (That is, the first part contains bytes 1-1000000, second 1000001-2000000 etc.) Simpler still, get a null modem cable and a couple of terminal programs, start up both sides of a zmodem/kermit multifile transfer, and wait for it to finish. It'll probably take longer overall, but most of that will be hands-off time (ie, you can do something else in the meantime). Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>