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Linux enigma



Linux enigma:
I recently tried to install SuSE linux on a workstation that does not boot from CDROM. There is a suse utility that writes installation files to a windows HD but alas suse could not install and put on Debian. HOWEVER! the suse installation utility created several directories that I cannot remove. In the windows partition of this machine, I have a linux directory where suse created a suse directory and a setup directory therein (windows/linux/suse/setup - when viewed from the now installed debian partition). Inside of the setup directory is an entity called '/linux' that I have tried to delete with rm and rmdir and get an error message:

rm: cannot remove '/linux': No such file or directory
rmdir: '/linux': No such file or directory

when I try to access this entity with Midnight Commander (my trusted friend from MSDOS days) I get the following message

File '/linux' exists but can not be stat-ed: No such file or directory.

How does one deal with entities like this?



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