Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:49:55 +0100 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's up with the symlinks in the 7.0-RC2 ISO images? Message-ID: <47B59883.6040403@gmail.com>
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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... > However: > > - The symlinks aren't required to read the docs. They're > only for convenience. Symlinks also aren't required for anything else: hard links work fine, and are more compatible. > - 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.
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