Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I am getting the error:
Setup was unable to copy the following file:
IA32
o press ENTER to retry the copy operation [ etc. ]
I did a find in the os directory and this is the only hit: ./win2ksp4/I386/$oem$/$1/drivers/shuttle/LAN/Windows/Drivers/IA32
Aha.
This path:
/os/win2ksp4/I386/$oem$/$1/drivers/shuttle/LAN/Windows/Drivers
...is 62 characters long. Append "IA32" and it exceeds 64 characters, which is the maximum path length for FreeDOS.
I started to understand what was happening when I booted to FreeDOS and created this directory chain:
\foo1\foo2\foo3\foo4\foo5\foo6\foo7\foo8\foo9\foo10\foo11\foo12
When I tried "mkdir foo13", it failed.
The only thing I do not understand is why your $oem$ structure works when using the FreeDOS-based boot disk.
I'm pretty sure that the boot disk I am using is MSDOS based. Ah, yes it is:
strings command.com | grep 6.2
Microsoft(R) MS-DOS(R) Version 6.20
Isn't this the one that comes with 3.5? Did any versions of Unattended use a MSDOS based disk? Perhaps I started with an older version (3.4? 3.3?) and just kept migrating.
I confirmed this theory by reading the FreeDOS kernel source code. The PARSE_MAX constant creates the limitation.
I suppose we could build our own copy of FreeDOS. And maybe I will do that eventually...
Meanwhile, I think we should just document this and move on. Even just testing for it in install.pl would be expensive, since it requires recursing through the entire $oem$ structure looking for the longest total path. I am not sure it is worth it.
Yes, I certainly don't need to preserve that directory structure.
Jordan
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