Has ANYONE installed from vfat copied distributuon, HOW?

[John Miskinis]

Hello,

I recently copied the entire 2.1 CD to c:\debiancd using windows 95,
to avoid CDROM problems, and am now persuing a hard disk based
install.

It appears that the install expects symbolic links to work.  I
poked around and these links appear to be 0 length files, even
under Windows 95.

HAS ANYONE EVER INSTALLED PACKAGES FROM A VFAT FILE SYSTEM such
as this?  Can I somehow hack up the directories to simulate the
links?  Or better, a utility of some sort?

Many Thanks for any information

John

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Re: Has ANYONE installed from vfat copied distributuon, HOW?

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 17:15:03 -0700, John Miskinis wrote:
 HAS ANYONE EVER INSTALLED PACKAGES FROM A VFAT FILE SYSTEM such
 as this?

Yes, more or less.

 Can I somehow hack up the directories to simulate the links?

An easier solution is just to install the base system (you should be able to
write the floppies under Windows), boot into it, then mount your CD and do
dpkg --recursive --record-avail /cdrom
(repeat for the second CD if you have one).
This updates dpkg/dselect's notion of where the files are, and should make
it possible to install packages using dselect from then on.

HTH,
Ray
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