Re: Linux enigma
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 08:36, Phil wrote:
> 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?
Can you umount/mount the partition to see if /linux goes away?
Also, aren't there utilities you can run on the MS side to fix this
kind of thing?
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