I have been able to get past my previous problems with
the base system loading. Now when I reboot the machine and it starts to
load the packages, it doesn't like the fact that they ate stored on a
dos drive which limits the file names to 8 characters. Is there any way
to get around this?
Jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: David Wright
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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000
12:19 PM
To: Owens, Jerry
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: Install problem
Quoting Owens, Jerry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> e.g. (untested)
>
> cp
path-to-your-file/base2_1.tgz .
> gunzip base2_1.tgz
> ls
> I tried to unzip it
using gunzip on the VC2
> console and it said gunzip not found. I was
able to open it with WinZip
> from windows and it looked fine. It would also
let me unzip it.
My mistake. Before the contents of base2_1.tgz
are available,
the commands are pretty limited. You might try
zcat < path-to-your-file/base2_1.tgz > /dev/null
which means you don't have to copy the file, of
course.
Your mail client seems to be seriously broken
when quoting, BTW:
> (Copying it prevents you
altering the original.
> IIRC at this
> stage . is / so it
doesn't matter if you add a
> tarfile.)
>
> Cheers,
>
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