Re: iMac, dselect and .finderinfo?

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On 10/11/99 Nathan Olsen wrote:

> Well, I'm working my way through installing debian onto my iMac with
> dselect and I've hit a snag. I've copied/mount the directories from
> ftp.debian.org...main/binary-powerpc/ to an hfs drive on my computer.
> Installation seems to be going fine except that when dselect reaches the
> end of a directory it starts searching through .finderinfo and (of course)
> starts logging a lot of errors and then quits.

ugh, i hate hfs... dselect probably have to be fixed to specifically 
ignore that directory...

> I tried to rm and rmdir .finderinfo but it won't go away. To be honest, I
> don't think it would be a good idea if it *did* go away. What I need is a
> way to keep dselect from accessing .finderinfo -- does anyone have any
> ideas?

.finderinfo is a hfs thing, the kernel will not permit its removal 
(unfortunately), hfs insists on having 2 entries in the filesystem 
for each and every file so it can have all that useless hfs metadata 
attached, iirc there is another one in .resource or something like 
that so it can attach a resource fork, i imagine dselect will have to 
be taught to ignore that one as well...

I would suggest copying your /hfs/debian tree to /home/debian (which 
is extfs) and point apt/dselect at that, you may have to go in and 
remove the .finderinfo garbage if they come along for the ride...

either that or reinitialize the hfs partition as a dos one, but you 
need mkdosfs for that and it probably is not installed yet...



Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
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