On 8 Nov 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: >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
No it does not. AFAIK, the Linux kernel needs a UNIX file system to compile.
