Re: Using Rock Ridge extentions with Windowns NT 4
On 27 Jul, david.cureton@nokia.com wrote:
| HI,
| Since I do not have a CD-ROM in my linux box I am trying to
| serve the Debian CD from my Wintel NT 4.0 box via FTP. This appears to work
| OK except that NT does uses 8.3 file names of the ISO9660 file system and
| does not make use of the rock ridge extentions. Therefore dselect can not
| find the packages as it expects them to be called.
|
| Is there any software availabe that supports rock ridge extentions under NT
| 4.0 or alternativly a script that, after copying the CD to harddisk,
| modifies the 8.3 file names to there long version using the trans.tbl
| translation table?
|
| Cheers David
|
|
Which Service Pack are you using? Seems it should support long file
names, and have both Rock Ridge & Joliet extensions. Is it a Winnt
ftp-ism causing this? Or when you read the CD, say with Explorer, are
the file names truncated?
--
Eric G. Miller
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