Re: Installing kernel sources on alternative partition problem

[Andrew Suffield <aps100@doc.ic.ac.uk>]

On 8 Nov 2000, Hubert Chan wrote:

>Kieren Diment <kieren@mailandnews.com> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have a slightly obscure problem recompiling my potato
>> kernel-source-2.2.17 on a P100 laptop.
>>
>> I have a disk space problem and therefore tried to unpack the kernel
>> sources on my other partition, which is a now redundant vfat partition
>> that had win 95 on it.
>>
>> When I extract the tarball, I get the following error message:
>>
>> tar: kernel-source-2.2.17/include/asm: Cannot create symlink to asm-i386':
>> Operation not permitted
>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>Hmm. Does vfat even support symlinks?  That may be the problem.  If you don't

No it does not. AFAIK, the Linux kernel needs a UNIX file system to
compile.