On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > 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. APT 0.3.11.1 supports this, you can grab it from http://www.debian.org/~jgg - be sure to re-run 'apt-cdrom add' so that it can deal with the missing symlinks. Jason
