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Question: Installing from HD or FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Viray)
Fri Nov 20 13:06:51 1998
From: David Viray <Viray@casd.mot.com>
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:44:49 -0600
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I have FTPed the tarred 5.2 dist from sunsite.unc.edu, and before I start
and hit trouble, would like to know what kind of snags I might run into.
I have an nt server with IIS4 running on it, and the distribution extracted
(with Winzip) into the ftp (ftproot/pub/redhat5.2) here. I have also copied
it to a small win98 fat-16 partition on the destination machine.
I was unable to start an install from the hard disk, but I think there may
be an Long File Name problem, as the directory is named redhat5_2, and a DOS
dir lists it as REDHAT~1. I have no idea how RH handles it, but I will
rename it to something shorter before I proceed again.
Do I need to be concerned with symbolic links, as they exist on sunsite, and
if so, where can I find docs describing how one preserves the symbolic links
when copying to FAT or NTFS partitions?
Thanks in advance
David Viray
FOA Engineer
Motorola ICSD
630 548 ????
virayaticsddotmotdotcom
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