Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > > I have a slightly obscure problem recompiling my potato > kernel-source-2.2.17 on a P100 laptop. > > I have a disk space problem and therefore tried to unpack the kernel > sources on my other partition, which is a now redundant vfat partition > that had win 95 on it. > > When I extract the tarball, I get the following error message: > > tar: kernel-source-2.2.17/include/asm: Cannot create symlink to asm-i386': > Operation not permitted > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Hmm. Does vfat even support symlinks? That may be the problem. If you don't need the partition, you should try reformatting to ext2fs. (Or maybe, is there a tool out there that will convert the partition?) Well, what it's trying to do is symlink kernel-source-2.2.17/include/asm to kernel-source-2.2.17/include/asm-i386. I think it needs that to be a symlink, and I don't think you can just copy the directory (although it probably wouldn't hurt to try). Hubert -- ____ | ----------------------------------------------------------- | / --+-- | / ___|___ Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | \ | _|_ | |__| |__|__| GCS/M d- s:- a-- C++ UL+(++++) P++ L++ E++ W++ N++ o? | | K? w--- O++ M- V- PS-- PE+++ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 X R- tv+ b+ | / | \ DI++++ D G e++ h! !r !y | / | \ | | <><------------------ http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/ PGP/GnuPG fingerprint: 6CC5 822D 2E55 494C 81DD 6F2C 6518 54DF 71FD A37F Key can be found at http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/hackerhue.asc Experience the Power to Change -- http://www.powertochange.org/ CAUCE member -- Stop Spam! -- http://www.cauce.org/ Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? -- http://www.linux.com/ International Alliance for Compatible Technology -- http://www.iact.net/
