Re: Linux enigma

["Hugo Portela" <hugo.portela@famma.web.pt>]

Hello, Phil,

  try rmdir "/linux" 
(use the quotes.) 

If it doesn't work try the following in the same folder 
where that strange /linux exists

      $mkdir temp
      $mv * temp
      $cd temp
      $rm -rf *
      $cd ..
      $rmdir temp

  If there's others folders you don't want to 
remove move them out of the temp folder 
before executing the rm -rf * command.


======= At 2003-03-06, 09:36:00 you 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?
>
>
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Best regards.				 
Hugo Portela
hugo.portela@famma.web.pt
2003-03-06