Bug#53563: marked as done (File name confusion prevents install from hd)
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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:07:59 -0800
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From: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>
Subject: File name confusion prevents install from hd
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package: boot-floppies
version: 12/20/99 unstable
severity: critical
I was completely unable to do a hd-based install because the installer kept
looking files with different names from the ones I downloaded. E.g., on
the archive, disks-1.44/rescue.bin. But the installer wants
disks-1440/resc-12.2.12.bin.
I tried renaming the files, but could never get the install to work.
First, the file name behavior was poor.
I would mkdir disks-1440 and it would appear in listings as disks-14. But
if I cd disks-1440, it works.
(By the way, mv doesn't do whole directories; if that's not supposed to be
a limitation of the shell it would be good to fix).
I tried booting to NT and renaming the files with the right names (the
partition is fat). When I go back to Linux install, files show up with
names like disks-~1 (this happens to files as well as directories; I'm just
trying to give a flavor)--in other words, the short form of the DOS names.
When, through the process of renaming and copying described 2 paragraphs
above (i.e., under the linux install environment, running a second console)
I was able to get past the complaints about the names, I got an error
message "Unable to extract floppy image from rescue.bin" (very approximate,
from memory). After inspecting the files, I see they have different
lengths from the archive--perhaps the drive was mounted in some mode where
the mv/cp commands were doing cr/lf conversions?
In short, there seem to be at least two problems here:
1) the names the install process is looking for do not match the names in
the archive
2) the handling of long file names from a vfat partition is poor.
The final failure might indicate another problem....
Environment:
The partition I attempted to use was a logical partition, formatted FAT by
NT 4.0, SP4.
I tried using it from the /dev/hda2 choice on the install dialogs, and also
by mounting it.
mount -t vfat failed.
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Subject: File name confusion prevents install from hd
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 02 Jan 2000 14:23:17 -0500
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Closing bug, user confirms was closed in 2.2.3.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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