Re: What if package size is bigger than a floppy can hold? (was Re: Suggestion to future debian releases)

When i needed to do this, getting dpkg-split onto the system required solving the floppy-split first . . . Anyway, i downloaded the package (perl if i recall), used "split" to break it into 1.4m pieces, moved these floppy by floppy, then used "cat" to put them back together. split generates pac

Re: What if package size is bigger than a floppy can hold? (was Re: Suggestion to future debian releases)

Hi David, you can use 'dpkg-split'. It's in the 'dpkg'-package, maybe only in the one from 'hamm'. It comes with a manpage. If you don't find it just use 'split' from the 'textutils'-package. It also comes with a manpage. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics

What if package size is bigger than a floppy can hold? (was Re: Suggestion to future debian releases)

Hi again, Well I got most of the things I require down. BTW I got an error when I did the 'dpkg -i man-db*'. It installed but complained at the end and the script aborted at line 87... it still works though... Now the question is I need to get a 2.3MB package onto floppies and then to the Lin