Re: Installing from a DOS partition

[Joanna Bryson <joannab dai ed ac uk>]

Thanks for the answers, but I think you guys are missing the point...
I tried to ftp these files, but aside from the base directory, I
couldn't!  The RPMS directory has files with names in it that are 
illegal in DOS.  This is why I can't create those directories.

I already have seperate linux partitions, but its an old a.out system
and I want to upgrade it to Red Hat, leaving the DOS partition as is.
The DOS partition still has 224M free even after backing up the user
stuff from the linux partition, so I think this should work if I could
just get the files written!  There used to be a utility that helped
you select which rpms you wanted by group, and then changed their
names to rpm001 etc. so it would fit in a DOS file space (the rpm
program doesn't care about the filenames, or didn't.)

Thanks again in advance, 

Joanna

> On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Scott G. Ainsworth wrote:
> 
> > Just make sure that the RedHat directory is in the root of your DOS
> > partition and use RedHat's hard disk install option.  The RedHat directory
> > is the one that contains the RPMS, instiamge, and base directories.  Of
> > course, you also must have space available on the hard disk to create your
> > Linux partitions.
> 
> You must also have your dos partitions mounted!!
> 
> Bob
> 
> >