Re: RE: Installing from Hard Disk


Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:45:19 -0600 (MDT)


On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Reid Ellis wrote:

> This is probably a stupid question:
>
> I was going to copy the complete distro to my Mac to install until I realized
> that a lot of the file names were >32 chars and would thus be truncated and
> incorrect, as far as the install scripts are concerned.
>
> Can Yellow Dog be installed from a MacOS filesystem? I installed my copy via
> FTP [having a 5 Mbps cablemodem sure helps], which doesn't have a problem with
> long file names.
>

Generally it should work.

> Curious,
> Reid
>
> --
> Reid Ellis <rae@tnir.mef.org> http://tnir.mef.org/~rae/
>
> An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the President but
> is always polite to traffic cops.
>
>

Dan

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