On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:08:07AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > I'm installing slink on a friend's old '486, with a CD rom which is > smbmounted from a drive on his win98 box. > I can access the .deb files okay, and can do 'dpkg -i file.deb', but > 'apt-get install <package>' is broken because the symlinks on the CD > aren't followed. > Is there any way to get apt-get to work on an smbmounted CD rom? > I'm considering installing personal web server on the '98 box and > serving up the CD as http or ftp if smbmount won't work. Yes, but that wouldn't work either, because no microsoft filesystem supports symlinks.
> I'd like > to avoid making any changes to the winbox because he uses it for work > and I don't want to be responsible for fixing anything on it that > might break. > Any ideas? Have you tried just using dpkg-multicd with dselect, instead of APT? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
