On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 08:18:26AM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
> 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.
I believe you meant stable:
$ apt-cache showpkg g77
Package: g77
Versions:
1:2.91.60-5(/var/state/apt/lists/debian.midco.net_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
Bob
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