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["Krzysztof A. Suchecki" <christopher.suchecki AT wp.pl>]

qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ernesto Celis wrote:
> >
> > I have the new PC to install BL, but when run the install
> > script it can't find the packages to install from the
> > slackware CD. I found the problem is the directories in the
> > CD wich are capital leters (/SLAKWARE/A2)
>
> That is strange.  My Slackware 7.1 CD has non-capital letters.
> Sometimes that happens when using a DOS filesystem, but the
> CD filesystem should be iso9660.

Yes, but iso9660 doesn't allow long file names AFAIR.
To use long files names, there should be support for either
RockRidge (I probably mispelled it :) ) extension,
or Joliet extension.

Windows 9x knows Joliet and doesn't know RockRidge.
Linux knows both :)

Slackware 7.1 CD uses RR extension and later Slacks (i.e. 8.1)
- already Joliet. So for Win9x there are only 8.3 filenames :(
and in capital letters on Slack 7.1 CD.

I suppose Ernesto got a Slack 7.1 CD that was copied under
Windowz. :( I suppose that even burning from ISO image
shouldn't work as Slack 7.1 CD is not Joliet "friendly" :)


Chris