John <they.need.your.spam@ready.verisign.com> wrote:
> 1. What is the "_RR_MOVE" directory in Slak91d2?

It is one of the "hidden" structures which are needed to map
ISO9660 filenames (all caps) to "whatever your O/S likes".
If you SEE the dir, it means your system is not correctly interpreting
the RockRidge entensions OF that CD.

> These look like they may be some modules / drivers, including
> one for my Intel Gigabit NIC's, which would be very nice. If this
> IS what they are, how can I use them?

They're only filename remappings, not the files themselves.

> 2. All of the directories / files on the Slak91d1 CD are lowercase,

Which means RR extensions _are_ correctly interpreted on this CD

> where expected, but are upper-case on the Slak91d2CD, ie., KDEADMIN.TGZ"

Should actually even be
KDEADMIN.TGZ;1
etc (a normal iso9660 filename is all caps, when made on a PC has an 8+3
length and a BINARY version number (is needed for the mapping to Vax/VMS
filenames). The RockRidge structures should map this name to:

> "kdeadmin-3.1.4-i486-1.tgz"

Which is not a valid iso9660 filename, too many dots (but IS valid in Unix).

> Is this a bad #2 CD? Will the uppercase file names be handled by the
> Slack installer?? (Install of KDE / Gnome failed, the 1x I tried it;
> I didn't need it, so I quit and went for a cmd-line only install.)

It looks like a bad CD, indeed, you may want to try some other RR options
at the mount (but by default it should recognize the RR extensions and
interprete them - NOT showing the structures where it gets them from).
See "man mount" at the iso9660 part for mounting options for that fs.

Normally I only see _RR_ files/dirs when I view the CD under Windows (and
it does NOT contains Joliet extensions, because otherwise Windows wil
be showing the filenames according to THAT extension).

PS: with RockRidge extension files can also have owner/group id's and
attributes, these again are "the way your O/S wants them" (so for Unix
attributes will be the well known -rwxrwxrwx ones, in Vax/VMS
[rwed,rwed,rwed,rwed], etc.).
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