Re: [cobalt-users] Creating OSRCD with windows

["Richard Donahue" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Creating OSRCD with windows


> >
> >Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Creating OSRCD with windows
> >   From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >   Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:01:35 -0500 (EST)
> >     To: Cobalt Users Listserver <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Paul Shuttleworth wrote:
> >
> >> The problem I have run into is that windows/dos reserves the filename
Aux
> >> for its own use so therefore will not copy the file
> >>
> >> nfsroot_x86\usr\lib\sendmail_cf\ostype\aux.m4
> >>
> >> >From the OSRCD to disk.
> >
> >I have never used windows to build a custom OSRCD, but doesn't windows
> >mangle the filenames?
> >
> >I am sure you are going to have other problems, AFAIK there are a lot of
> >filenames that windows won't handle properly.
> >
> >get Linux!
> >
> >Gerald
> >--
>
> Whoops!
>
> Never thought about that, you are as always correct Gerald.
>
> Will have to wait till I can rebuild a machine with a Linux distro and
CDRW drive.
>
> Thanks Gerald
>
>
> Paul.
>
>

You can burn the image onto a CDR with a Windows machine, but use linux to
make the image. Therefore, you don't need a Linux machine with a CDRW drive.

Rich
EBS


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