Re: Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

2006-01-12 Thread Padilla C, Miguel Angel
 

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-19 Thread Bill Leach
I just 'poked around' looking for something that would describe the command syntax for rawwrite.exe and nothing that I could find even suggested that the program could 'skip' such as dd will do... if that is true then of course it would be useless for what was wanted. dd can copy from a rawwrite f

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-19 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > Maybe someone can confirm this for certain but isn't this exactly the > sort of thing that "rawwrite.exe" does? If that is the case, then you > can copy the files "in specified sized pieces" and then use either > rawwrite on the target machine under DOS or

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-19 Thread Bill Leach
Maybe someone can confirm this for certain but isn't this exactly the sort of thing that "rawwrite.exe" does? If that is the case, then you can copy the files "in specified sized pieces" and then use either rawwrite on the target machine under DOS or dd under Linux (if dd is in the base system).

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-19 Thread shaul
If you have access to a debian system you can split files using 1) dpkg or 2) The dd command. > I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is > not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How > do I install packages

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-18 Thread Miguel Angel Padilla C.
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Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-18 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Try pkzip/pkunzip (probably get it off the web) if that fails, there is a dos version of tar .. I think you can get them from one of the simtel archives (or find one using one of the archie sites ) For the nearest simtel site to you go to http://www.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/filedocs/downl

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-17 Thread Roberto Magana
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > > I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is > > not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How > > do I install packages via floppy disks that are larger than 1.44MB? Is > > there a DOS utility t

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-17 Thread T-SNAKE
> > there a DOS utility that I can use to split these files across > > several disks? Thanks. My meegar advise might be try to uuencode it and slip it into two files then zip each, put it on the dos partion (assuming you have one) and uudecode. Achaic, but it should work ;) Of course, then you'd

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-17 Thread Nebu John Mathai
> I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is > not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How > do I install packages via floppy disks that are larger than 1.44MB? Is > there a DOS utility that I can use to split these files across several > di

Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-17 Thread Tom King
I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How do I install packages via floppy disks that are larger than 1.44MB? Is there a DOS utility that I can use to split these files across several disks? Than