thoralf
20th June 2004, 11:40
Let's assume you a) decide to give Linux a try and b) go for the latest Suse-distro and you are c) the rather miserly type of guy. Since you have a rather fat internet connection, you'll probably download the whole ftp-tree from one of the mirrors and start installing ...
You'll save yourself a lof ot trouble if you don't download the packages to a volume using FAT or NTFS. In the suse/setup/descr dir are two files called "minimal.sel", the filenames differ only in capitalization ... ext2 and its predecessors handle them perfectly fine, whereas neither FAT nor NTFS are aware that these are actually different files.
More informntion and workarounds can be found here (http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?t=9069&highlight=minimal+sel) (German only).
With kind regards,
Thoralf.
You'll save yourself a lof ot trouble if you don't download the packages to a volume using FAT or NTFS. In the suse/setup/descr dir are two files called "minimal.sel", the filenames differ only in capitalization ... ext2 and its predecessors handle them perfectly fine, whereas neither FAT nor NTFS are aware that these are actually different files.
More informntion and workarounds can be found here (http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?t=9069&highlight=minimal+sel) (German only).
With kind regards,
Thoralf.