Subject: Re: CheapBytes CD-ROM
To: HIRT <n9720246@toad.lake.cs.wwu.edu>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/16/1998 17:46:10
HIRT wrote:
>
> Okay,
>
> I just bought a cdrom from these guys. Everything seemed to be going
> great. Install was going along fine until it asked for the directory for
> the sets. I gave it the path and it choked. I went under windoze on a
> friends machine and checked the path names. Seemed everything started
> with an uppercase letter. No problem. Went back to install. Typed in
> new pathnames. Still choked. Went back under Dos. All path and file
> names are in uppercase. Install cannot see them. If anyone could help me
> out I would appreciate it.
At least official NetBSD 1.3.2 CDs are using Rock-Ridge extensions
(which is not supported under windoze nor dos), so the paths
were other under windoze than under NetBSD when mounted via mount_cd9660.
You can any time try to exit sysinstall and then do something like
mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt2
and check the paths directly on the install machine.
Even if CheapBytes CDs won't use Rock-Ridge I pretty doubt it's
using all uppercase names. It's just DOS convention to print names
that way.
Jarda
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