installing packages

For a linux newbie... How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't have .deb extensions? TIA, Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

hard disk not ready - newbie, please forgive me!

I have a machine with an EIDE drive and a SCSI 1.3GB The SCSI is an old HP mainframe drive with 255 heads, 164 cylinders, and 63 sectors. I am able to use the rescue disk to start the debian install, and then modify the settings with the expert commands withing FDISK