On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 15:35, Robin Atwood wrote: > My present FC2 partition was copied from another disk when I lasted upgraded > my box. I used either 'cp -a ...' or mc and I now have absolute symlinks > everywhere, eg: > [root@opal root]# ls -l /etc/X11/X > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 15 20:24 /etc/X11/X > -> ../../../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg > > FC3 now tells me that it cannot upgrade a system with absolute symlinks. Is > there some way I can convert them, via tar maybe? > TIA > -Robin. man symlinks I believe the command you want is: symlinks -c / -- Tony Placilla, RHCT anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx (585) 586-5757 x 2201 J.O.A.T. perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'