> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Taylor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 8:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Chris Job
> Subject: Re: X-windows
>
> At 08:31 AM 6/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hey folks....
> >Sorry for being long winded but....
> >
> >I downloaded the latest XFree86-Mach64 rpm module from Red Hat's website
> >onto a disk. I did this using Internet Explorer on a Windows 95 PC. I
> >then copied the module into a temp directory on my Red Hat Linux 5.2.
> >box and then tried to install it using "rpm -I <filename>.rpm. I got
> >the error message: Can't open <filename>.rpm.
> >
> >Any suggestions as to what I should do next?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Chris Job
> >"when excellence is available, good is not enough"
> >
> >
> Hi Chris:
> A bit of background regarding file naming conventions first. Win95
> uses
> the dos 8.3 file naming convention (unless it has "longfilenames"
> installed). ALL dos diskettes use FAT, therefore are 8.3 filesnames.
> When
> you d/l'd the file it was probably saved and definately transferred on
> floppy with the 8.3 filename. Say you have a file "tom-1.2-3_i386.rpm",
> this file will probably be stored and transferred as "tom_1_2_.rpm" or
> some
> such. NT is not quite this bad but still makes some changes. Not sure
> about Win98. Now, that is probably not the filename you used when you
> tried to fun rpm on it, therefore it did not find the file.
>
[Luijpen, Alexander van] Win 95 uses VFAT with long filesnames also
on floppy. However, IIRC, by default /etc/fstab tells /dev/fd0 to be type
DOS, so it may seem it is a FAT disk, although when you mount with -t vfat
(or change /etc/fstab) it should be able to see the long filenames. But
otherwise this could very well be the problem.
> When you copy the floppy to linux, (or over network,etc) rename it
> to the
> correct linux filename. Hopefully that will take care of not finding the
> file problem. Also, since linux is case sensitive, be sure to use 'i' and
> not 'I' when running rpm. It is a bit confusing to have 'i' and 'U' for
> install and update, why not have them consistent?
>
> Hope this helps,
> Tom
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