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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