Re: [MiNT] ramdisk bug

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:32 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:12:36 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 23:19 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:14:45 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> > > > On 08/16/2010 10:50 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >> O.k. I think I'm gonna catch this case with an in-built kernel symlink
> > > > .
> > > > >
> > > > > A thing like /u seems to be a total nonsense for me...
> > > > >
> > > > > The good idea would be to look into TosWin2 to see why it tries to
> > > > > access such a strange path.
> > > >
> > > > I must admit that I don't understand anything of this bug anymore, but I
> > > > agree that it's better to fix the actual problem than circumventing it
> > > > in the kernel.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The bug didn't exist in 1.16.3 so something has changed and it isn't
> > > arcview, unzip or toswin2 on my system.
> > >
> > > I haven't updated the kernel for a few days but I will do and report
> > > back.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > It'd be worth you doing this from a command shell.
> >
> > ln -s / u:/u
> >
> 
> If I do that in a toswin shell will it be used by the gem app ?

It not so much the gemapp, but what toswin is doing.

> I didn't think it would.
> 
> Anyway I tried and it didn't fix the bug.
> 
> If I drag to r:\ then it extracts to /opt/toswin2
> If I drag to U:\ram then arcview gives error 2

O.k. it's time I took a closer look.

Alan.