08-11-2008
Its not gonna do you any good if you cant download from the internet.
The floppies are for those people that cant boot from a cd and will install via the network or internet. If its not letting you download the cd images its probabally not going to allow you to download the packages.
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If you can't boot from CD, you can download floppy images to install Debian. You need the floppy/boot.img, the floppy/root.img and one or more of the driver disks.
The boot floppy is the one with boot.img on it. This floppy, when booted, will prompt you to insert a second floppy — use the one with root.img on it.
If you're planning to install over the network, you will usually need the floppy/net-drivers-1.img. For PCMCIA or USB networking, and some less common network cards, you will also need a second driver floppy, floppy/net-drivers-2.img.
If you have a CD, but cannot boot from it, then boot from floppies and use floppy/cd-drivers.img on a driver disk to complete the install using the CD.
Floppy disks are one of the least reliable media around, so be prepared for lots of bad disks (see Section 5.3.2, “Floppy Disk Reliability”). Each .img file you downloaded goes on a single floppy; you can use the dd command to write it to /dev/fd0 or some other means (see Section 4.3, “Creating Floppies from Disk Images” for details). Since you'll have more than one floppy, it's a good idea to label them.
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wrap-and-sort
WRAP-AND-SORT(1) General Commands Manual WRAP-AND-SORT(1)
NAME
wrap-and-sort - wrap long lines and sort items in Debian packaging files
SYNOPSIS
wrap-and-sort [options]
DESCRIPTION
wrap-and-sort wraps the package lists in Debian control files. By default the lists will only split into multiple lines if the entries are
longer than 80 characters. wrap-and-sort sorts the package lists in Debian control files and all .install files. Beside that wrap-and-sort
removes trailing spaces in these files.
This script should be run in the root of a Debian package tree. It searches for control, control.in, copyright, copyright.in, install, and
*.install in the debian directory.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Show this help message and exit.
-a, --wrap-always
Wrap all package lists in the Debian control file even if the entries are shorter than 80 characters and could fit in one line line.
-s, --short-indent
Only indent wrapped lines by one space (default is in-line with the field name).
-b, --sort-binary-packages
Sort binary package paragraphs by name.
-k, --keep-first
When sorting binary package paragraphs, leave the first one at the top. Unqualified debhelper(7) configuration files are applied to
the first package.
-n, --no-cleanup
Do not remove trailing whitespaces.
-d path, --debian-directory=path
Location of the debian directory (default: ./debian).
-f file, --file=file
Wrap and sort only the specified file. You can specify this parameter multiple times. All supported files will be processed if no
files are specified.
-v, --verbose
Print all files that are touched.
AUTHORS
wrap-and-sort and this manpage have been written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
Both are released under the ISC license.
DEBIAN
Debian Utilities WRAP-AND-SORT(1)