"Michelle Coelho" wrote: >O.K..I can't seem to connect to my ISP, so everyone's telling me to use >minicom. Fine. So I downloaded minicom*.deb DIRECTLY on floppy (Was I >supposed to rawrite it?)..O.K so I specified 'floppy' as the access method >in dselect, then the drive as A, and msdos as the drive format. Then dselect >responded saying: > ... >Insert a disk containing a Packages file, or type q to quit. dselect is intended for selecting packages from an entire distribution
... >So I tried: dpkg -i /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb, and dpkg replied saying: /dev/fd0 is a raw disk device; all you can do with it is read or write a stream of raw sector data. You need to mount the filesystem on it, like this: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt The files on the floppy are now visible in the /mnt directory... >Could someone tell me how to install minicom and/or wvdial from floppy? ...and... >>> If it's not too much to ask..could you tell me step-wise how I should >>> install minicom. >> >>One step: dpkg -i minicom*.deb ... you can now do: dpkg -i /mnt/minicom*.deb (All the above must be done as superuser, of course.) If the floppy disk is DOS formatted, rather than Win95 formatted, use `mount -t msdos' instead of `mount -t vfat'; in this case, the filename may be wrong (limited to 8.3 characters) so use `ls /mnt' to see what it actually is. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ======================================== "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not." Proverbs 1:10