[6375] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Installing Linux FROM DOS partition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Lewis)
Wed Nov 27 01:25:19 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961127004748.8108B-100000@cc.acoast.com>
From: William Lewis <wiml@omnigroup.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 96 22:22:15 -0800
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> the RedHat distribution uses RPM packages with way more
> than 8 letters in their names, so they get truncated by Windows 3.1, and
> any attept at succesful installation is therefore doomed.
I've done the same, upgrading using a floppy drive (until I got to the point
I could bring up a null-modem PPP link), and found that rpm files can be
renamed willy-nilly; they include their package name and version and release
internally. (Another way is to put all the files in a large .tar archive on
the zip disk.)
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