Greetings!
I have recently done a floppy installation of slackware 7.1 on a Toshiba T1950CT (8MB RAM, 200MB HDD, intel 486 DX2-40Mhz).
My partitions:
/dev/hda1 swap ~16MB
/dev/hda2 ext2 ~184MB
I installed the A package and most of the N package.
It has one free pcmcia type II/III slot in which I intend to insert a xircom
ethernet card, which connects to a router so that I may read e-mail in Pine and browse the HyperGlobalMegaNet in Lynx
So far everything is tickety-boo, except for the following:
How do I get the last package of the N series (n8) on the HDD?
I have tried the following;
"split -b 1440k file.tgz file_"
then (using a freshly formatted floppy for every file);
"cat file_series > /dev/fd0"
On the laptop I then 'glued' everything back together with a wildcard;
"cat file_* > file.tgz"
But when executing setup the installer says that for each .tgz file it will take 0kB of space on my HDD, so clearly something is not right.
If anyone here knows what I'm doing wrong, then please tell me.
I have no other means of transferring files to the laptop other than via a serial/parallel cable (I'd rather resort to this only as a last measure, as I believe this is not easy to set up).
Thanks in advance,
JJ