From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 17 14:51:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CD216A418 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mx-out-05.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7820113C44B for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:51:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mx-av-05.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-05.forthnet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1HEpg95022835; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:51:42 +0200 Received: from MX-IN-01.forthnet.gr (mx-in-01.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.23]) by mx-av-05.forthnet.gr (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1HEpgEi025375; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:51:42 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl85-63.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.52.63]) by MX-IN-01.forthnet.gr (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1HEpY6f007498; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:51:35 +0200 Authentication-Results: MX-IN-01.forthnet.gr smtp.mail=keramida@ceid.upatras.gr; spf=neutral Authentication-Results: MX-IN-01.forthnet.gr header.from=keramida@ceid.upatras.gr; sender-id=neutral Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1HEpXFk002080; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:51:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m1HEpX8v002079; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:51:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:51:32 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: deeptech71@gmail.com Message-ID: <20080217145132.GA1942@kobe.laptop> References: <47B59883.6040403@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47B59883.6040403@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's up with the symlinks in the 7.0-RC2 ISO images? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:51:45 -0000 On 2008-02-15 14:49, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: >Oliver Fromme wrote: >> Well, someone might want to look at the "doc" CD on Windows >> (e.g if he's offline and needs to loo at the docs before >> installing FreeBSD). > > Or maybe someone might want to make a FreeBSD-7.0-RC2 DVD, > and a FreeBSD installation is too far away... That's not a bug of the FreeBSD ISO image, then, but of the process used to `convert' a perfectly working CD-ROM to a DVD. The need for a DVD is not unrealistic, and I can certainly understand *why* you may need it. The symlinks of the original CD-ROM are not really a problem if you use a *real* OS to read the ISO image, and not the jokes which Microsoft creates. If you use a FreeBSD system for the `DVD-ROM staging area' with a filesystem not as limited as the usual Windows filesystems, symlinks should be no problem at all. >> - All the ISO images -- including the doc one -- are built >> with MS-Joliet extensions (in addition to RockRidge), so >> long file names etc. work fine on Windows, too. > > Actually, long file names etc. work fine on Windows without the > MS-Joliet extensions and with ISO level 2 or 3, but not on DOS though. > If Windows-readability is a higher priority than DOS-readability > (definitely!), then lose the symlinks. Right. So we have to `cripple' the UNIX users' experience, just to be able to please the Windows users. Why does this sound a bit odd? Giorgos