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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Daryl W. Brandt wrote:

> I am trying to install Baslinux to my HD on a Compaq Prosignia 300 server. 
> It has 64 meg ram and a pentium 90 with 2 scsi hard drives and a scsi cdrom.
> /dev/sda has mdos installed and also the slakware directories 
> a2,a3,a4,6,a13.
> /dev/sdb has been formatted for ext2 with baslinux utility. I want to 
> install Baslinux on this drive.
> /dev/sr0 is the scsi cdrom
>
> The etc/mtab has been set to:
>
> /dev/ram0  /  ext2   rw  0 0
> /dev/sda  /cd msdos rw 0 0
> /dev/ram1 /tmp /ext2 rw 0 0
> /dev/sdb /hd  ext2 rw 0 0
>
> After I boot to Baslinux from Dos and type Install I get a message looking 
> for bin.tgz in /cd/slakware/a2: not found.
>
> Please help me solve this problem.

Hello Daryl:

Here's a possibility: sometimes in transferring files to/from Linux/DOS
file naming or case get changed.  Could this be the problem in your
instance?  In other words, Linux, which is case sensitive, may be looking
for /cd/slakware/a2/bin.tgz, whereas in your DOS partition the path may be
something like /cd/slakware/A2/BIN.TGZ (note the change from lower to
upper case.  Linux won't find files that don't match the case it's looking
for exactly.  To find out exactly how Linux sees stuff on your DOS
partition, just mount it, cd to it, and do "ls" to look at contents and
case/spelling.  That's what comes to mind for me, anyway.  If there is a
problem with naming and/or case, renaming under Linux - e.g.,
---------------------------------------
cd /cd/slakware
mv A2 a2
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etc. - should take care of it.  Hope this helps.

James