On Wednesday, 01/06/2010 at 04:54 EST, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 1/6/2010 at 4:36 PM, "Frank M. Ramaekers" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I downloaded the DVD images (ISO). Extracted the files onto a SMB share > > (Samba on a Linux server) via WinAce. > > > > They show as uppercase in the WinAce display of the contents of the ISO. > > > > These are the two ISOs I have: > > > > 12/14/2009 01:58 PM 2,833,274,880 SLES-11-DVD-s390x-GM-DVD1.iso > > 12/14/2009 01:16 PM 932,233,216 SLES-11-DVD-s390x-GM-DVD2.iso > > From what I can tell, using a Windows tool to extract the files totally messed > up your file names. That's the root cause of your problem. Where exactly is > the ISO image located? On the Windows machine, or on a Linux machine? (Please > say Linux, but even if not, you can work around it.) > > Once you get the file name problem fixed, you will want to specify > /pub/outgoing/Suse as your FTP directory path, not one level down to > /pub/outgoing/Suse/suse (which will be the name once the file names are fixed).
Windows does not support the Red Rock ISO 9660 extension that is used for long names and symbolic links on a CD/DVD and, IIRC, the SuSE DVDs contain symlinks. (Maybe Windows 7 has added the support - I don't know.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
