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- Installation using a pile of floppies, at least one of which (usually
- the first) contains the Packages file, and the rest of which contain
- the binary *.deb files.
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- If you are installing software from the `non-free' or `contrib'
- directories as well as the main Debian distribution you must have the
- Packages files for those areas on separate floppies. The usual way to
- do this is to put each Packages file on the first floppy which contains
- packages from the relevant area.
-