Steve Preston: "Installing debian from floppies." (Oct 23, 14:44): > 1) Would it be useful to many people to be able to install packages > from DOS diskettes? (I vote yes on this)
Me too (not because I need it, but because I know other people do). > 2a) How hard would it be to make dpkg work with packages that have been > split across multiple diskettes? I've no idea, but this is better than breaking the packages in smaller pieces. If dpkg can work with split files, and there is a tool for splitting large packages, then it is possible to split things into any suitable size. Predefined sizes will be wrong. 1.4 MB is bad for people with 1.2 MB floppies, and 1.2 MB pieces waste space for people with 1.4 MB floppies. -- Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME and PGP mail welcome. Key: finger @kruuna, or check keyservers. Publib 0.5: ftp://ftp.cs.helsinki.fi/pub/Software/Local/Publib/
