[98448] in RedHat Linux List
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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