Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:51:32 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: deeptech71@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's up with the symlinks in the 7.0-RC2 ISO images? Message-ID: <20080217145132.GA1942@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <47B59883.6040403@gmail.com> References: <47B59883.6040403@gmail.com>
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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
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