My guess is that he is trying to run this on a file system type that is not fully suported by unix - e.g. a Windows file system mounted into a VM? Cheers. On 14 Sep 2012, at 05:37, Mark Jenkinson wrote: > Dear Michael, > > What OS/platform are you using? > > All the best, > Mark > > > On 14 Sep 2012, at 04:41, Michael Meier <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Dear all >> >> I try to start a group ICA but it stops immediately with the following error in the Progress report: >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Progress Report / Log >> Started at Fri Sep 14 10:32:54 BST 2012 >> >> Feat main script >> >> /bin/cp /tmp/feat_1Z76bu.fsf design.fsf >> >> mkdir .files;cp /usr/local/fsl/doc/fsl.css .files;ln -s /usr/local/fsl/doc/images .files/images >> ln: creating symbolic link `.files/images': Operation not supported >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Does anyone knows where the problem could be ? >> >> thanks for your efforts! >> >> cheers, michael >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Director, Oxford University FMRIB Centre FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK +44 (0) 1865 222726 (fax 222717) [log in to unmask] http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------