Hi,
please read the output of the dir of my CD ROM as seen from WIndows
NT and LINUX. I was surprise that it should have any difference at all.
The problem started when I started to install Star Office on my
LINUX machine so51a_lnx_01.tar (about 67MB) but it gave the error that
it is not the correct archeive, then I noticed the incorrect file size
of the tarball. I got over this problem by booting into NT again and
copying the file to a DOS partition and from there transfered it to
LINUX partition. I got the installation done successfully but I am
curious why LINUX machine is showing the wrong file size only for this
CD ROM. I tried other CDs randomly & it was fine. One more thing the content
of this CD was downloaded from net on NTFS partition from where it was
written to this CD (it should not make diffrence to the best of my
knowledge).
Output of dir command from Windows NT
Volume in drive G is PMAT
Volume Serial Number is 0E11-2259
Directory of G:\
10/06/99 06:23p 18,968,232 CC32E47.EXE
12/09/99 12:45a 989,184 freeJava2.exe
12/09/99 01:02a 1,689,061 HtmlToHlp-099a-se.zip
11/07/99 06:59a 70,393,856 so51a_lnx_01.tar
12/03/99 03:36p 65,446,400 so51a_win_01.exe
11/11/99 11:19a 34,553,728 sp5I386.exe
09/27/99 04:52p 37,174,114 wnt46e.exe
17 File(s) 278,138,174 bytes
0 bytes free
total 90614
Output of ls -al command on LINUX
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 32768 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Dec 3 03:16 ..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 15855616 Oct 7 01:23 CC32E47.EXE
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1689061 Dec 9 08:02 HtmlToHlp-099a-se.zip
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 989184 Dec 9 07:45 freeJava2.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0272768 Nov 7 13:59 so51a_lnx_01.tar
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7598080 Dec 3 22:36 so51a_win_01.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1237376 Nov 11 18:19 sp5I386.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8941952 Sep 27 23:52 wnt46e.exe
I have deleted several lines from both the output to prevent others from
getting irritated.
I hope somebody knows why it is happening.
Regards
Pankaj Mathur
Bangkok
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