RE: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?
Hi
Take a look at these links.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-kernel-compile
/ernst
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> that sounds good cause youre absolutely right when i started setting up this
> system i used some old dos 6.22 disks to get the hd formatted. my kernel is
> 2.2.19 'potato'
> so how do i rebuild my kernel with joliet enabled, speak slowly i'm a newbie
> :)
> thanks,
> mw.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pigeon [mailto:jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:17 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:27:00 -0500, "Wathen, Metherion"
> <mwathen@bsadesign.com> wrote:
>
> >I have files that have been downloaded from the Debian site and burned to
> >cdrom, when i use mc to copy the files to my harddrive for installation a
> >big part of the long name is replaced with a tilde; how do I get the long
> >name back?
> >Is my cdroms file format incorrect in fstab? any help would be great!
> >thanks,
> >mw.
>
> I don't think you can. I think the program you used to burn the CD
> munged them and you can't get them back. Either that or you wrote the
> files to an HD that was formatted with DOS 6.22 or earlier before you
> burned the CD.
>
> In Nero 5.5 you set "Iso Level 2 (max 31 chars)", "ISO 9660",
> "Joliet", "Allow path depth of more than 8 directories" and "Allow
> more than 255 characters in path" in the ISO tab of the New
> Compilation dialog.
>
> You may be lucky: Joliet is a kernel option; if your kernel doesn't
> have it you will only see the short filenames (IIRC). Solution:
> rebuild your kernel and enable Joliet. I don't know if the prepackaged
> kernels include Joliet support, but I'd be a bit surprised if they
> didn't or loads of people would be getting this problem.
>
> Pigeon
>
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