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Old 07-30-2003, 05:36 AM   #1
belphegore
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symlink on VFAT


hello,
i have an iPaq on familiar with a card on VFAT
I need to do a link on the card but it's impossible on VFAT how can i do?
thanks
 
Old 07-30-2003, 05:48 AM   #2
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it is impossible as vfat filesystems do not contain in funcitonality to understand what a syml;ink would be. sorry.

i don' tquite follow why you need to do this though.
 
Old 07-30-2003, 06:50 AM   #3
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i need to do this because i havn't enough place on my rom to install JVM so i install it on the card with the command ipkg -d but i got errors during installation like that : "ipkg: cannot create symlink from ./usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so to libXp.so.6: operation not mermitted"
 
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well basically you need to install this on a native filesystem...
 
  


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