I have done so at times. What happens, is Windows converts some of
the dots in filenames to underlines. Apparently RPM doesn't care.
But you have to tell RPM the name the file actually has on your system.
I.E., if it has underlines rather than dots, then when you invoke RPM,
use the
I used to do this a lot. The only problem you may have is that sometimes Linux
thinks that ANYTHING on a FAT drive is executable.
What I usually did was saved it to a FAT hd, then copied it over to an ext2
(RieserFS if you use it) hd and chmod as needed.
Ty
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:05:08 -0400,
Yes, you can do that safely. The only thing you might have to change is that
anything on a VFAT partition seems to automatically be made executable. So if
you don't want it to be executable, you can type "chmod a-x the_file_name".
This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, John wrote:
This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix files (i.e.
a .tar.gz or .rpm files) from the internet, is it safe to save them in a
Win95 directory? Is there anything I should do to protect/preserve file
attributes/permissions?
Yes, it is
As far as I know, you will just have to re-set the file
permissions to what you want them, like for an
rpm install file, make it non-executable, and
owned by root. If you want to know these
commands please ask me.
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, you wrote:
This is probably a silly question. When
John wrote:
This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix files (i.e.
a .tar.gz or .rpm files) from the internet, is it safe to save them in a
Win95 directory? Is there anything I should do to protect/preserve file
attributes/permissions?
I've got to do this on my home
This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix files (i.e.
a .tar.gz or .rpm files) from the internet, is it safe to save them in a
Win95 directory? Is there anything I should do to protect/preserve file
attributes/permissions?
I've got to do this on my home machine as I've got
