Hello All! I am making the switch to Debian after using Slackware for quite sometime and SLS before that. I am a seasoned Linux user, started out with one of the first SLS distributions which included the .99pl9 kernel! I am, however, new to Debian.
As I type this, FTP is hard at work downloading everything. I could nit find any type of installation readme and therefore have one question. Is it ok to rename all of the packages to an 8.3 format for installation from a DOS partition? I currently have all the packages stored on my existing Slackware partition. I usually do all my software installs from a spare IDE hard drive and would like to put debian on there too. Thanks!
