Karl F. Larsen said:
> Well with a lot of worry I played with 'dd' until I could make it
> copy filename.bin to a floppy disk. It took me 30 minutes to find that:
>
> dd if=/mnt/cdrom/root.bin of=/dev/fd0
>
> works just fine. Why this is not an example on the man page escapes me!
You find the command on the Debian installation instructions found at
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install
it says to use the command
dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync
> Then it said to put the Debian Rescue disk in and it loaded but took
> a long time. Then it helped me load 9 floppys what were base12-1.bin to
> base12-9.bin and then said "hold your mouth right, and it may boot". It came
If possible it is usually better to load all the files off a CDROM. It
also means you don't have to do disk swapping.
> I found a directory full of files of the .deb type. I have used the
> RPM loader and assumed this was about the same if I can ever find out what
> it is. It was hard and took way to much time to learn I wanted to use the
> software 'dpkg' which is about like RPM. The useful things are:
>
> dpkg --install filename.deb
>
> which loads the package onto your machine or complains that you need to have
> other software loaded before it can load. Lots of this.
dpkg is the lowest level utility and is generally not used for most
normal situations. The best idea is to either use dselect or to use
APT. APT is by far the most interesting because you can set it up to
download files off multiple FTP/HTTP servers and it will work out the
dependencies for you.
> library loaded. I think I will load g++ and g77, if I can find it again and
> compile it with the new libc...there is no .deb for g77.
There's not?
scooter$ apt-cache showpkg g77
Package: g77
Versions:
1:2.95-3(/var/state/apt/lists/mirror.aarnet.edu.au_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages),
[...]
Had a look on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and found g77 on
unstable too.
- Craig
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