Am Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2005 22:48 schrieb Radzai, Bridgette A.:
To put a twist on Egan's question; I have reviewed the attached sp3Tree file and found it helpful. It appears to be a structure on a Linux server. How do I manually integrate SP1 into an http installation on a non-linux source machine? Here is my current linuxrc.config for reference. Because I am using a Windows server for an installation source, I can not create the symbolic links as stated in the sp3Tree file (or can I?). I could copy the linked items to the root, any other ideas?
Windows (2000 and up) knows about hard and softlinks. Softlinks are called junction or reparse points. Get the "junction" command from "http://www.wininternals.com/" to set or delete them. Windows itself has a tool: "fsutil.exe": fsutil hardlink create <neuer Dateinname> <vorhandener Dateiname> fsutil reparsepoint query <dateiname> fsutil reparsepoint delete <dateiname> But this tool does not permit to create a reparse point. You have to fetch "junction" from wininternals to create them. A better alternative: install cygwin coreutils. There is a command called "link" ("ln" is there too). It behaves as "link" ("ln") does with Linux. And --- it gives you a more or less "Linux" environment, most scripts used with Linux running in, without need to change anything. If you prefer setting reparse points and hardlinks with your mouse, have a look at "NTFS Link"-Tool. Installing it adds context menu entries for both types of links. -- Thomas