Hi, I haven't used this myself so someone else may want to correct this. I recall reading some weeks ago that the msdos dirs in the debian ftp mirrors contained 8.3 filenames for the usual debian packages.
Luis. > [...] > installation of the packages from floppy. The *.deb packages do not > conform to the DOG 8.3 convention. So, is it safe to copy the file > changing the names to fit the convention so that they can go on ms-dog > preformated floppies or is is better to fdformat the disks, set up the > filesystem and copy the files as is. > [...] > Keith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
