On Sunday, 12/05/2010 at 05:44 EST, Bern VK2KAD <[email protected]> wrote:
> My next issue was the file structure on the DVD - my FTP server is Filezilla > running on XP - I simply copied the DVD contents to a folder on the FTP > server - alas this created another problem - the symbolic links for repodata > and packages weren't handled properly Actually, the problem is not the file structure, but Windows XP itself. Windows Vista is the first version of Windows to include support for symbolic links in NTFS. Hopefully MS added the support to the CD/DVD drivers as well. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 [email protected] 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
