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Re: install from hard drive

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 9 05:50:45 1998

Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 05:23:01 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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The RH5.2 CD contains symlinks.  These vanish

when you try to copy it to a DOS filesystem,

because DOS knows nothing of symlinks, so even

winzip cannot create a symlink in a DOS filesystem.

Result: you *cannot* make the RH5.2 CD from

files on a DOS filesystem.

--

Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2




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