Re: apt with smbmount
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:08:07AM -0700, David Karlin wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm installing slink on a friend's old '486, with a CD rom which is
> smbmounted from a drive on his win98 box.
> I can access the .deb files okay, and can do 'dpkg -i file.deb', but
> 'apt-get install <package>' is broken because the symlinks on the CD
> aren't followed.
> Is there any way to get apt-get to work on an smbmounted CD rom?
> I'm considering installing personal web server on the '98 box and
> serving up the CD as http or ftp if smbmount won't work.
Yes, but that wouldn't work either, because no microsoft filesystem
supports symlinks.
> I'd like
> to avoid making any changes to the winbox because he uses it for work
> and I don't want to be responsible for fixing anything on it that
> might break.
> Any ideas?
Have you tried just using dpkg-multicd with dselect, instead of APT?
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