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Re: directory structure



Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr> writes:

> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > ./sun4cdm:
> > disks-1.44/
> > drivers.tgz
> > linux-a.out
> > tftpboot-noultra.img
> 
> Just a thought: we could use sun4m name for the directory (instead
> of sun4cdm) and 2 symlinks named sun4c & sun4d pointing to it.  This
> way, just extracting the subarch from /proc/cpuinfo would give the
> right dir to use.

This is interesting -- would be good to do.  I'm not sure symlinks are
safe to use, however.  I guess they are -- I think we want to avoid
symlinks for the i386 version, however (since they aren't represented
well in DOS, i.e., for people installing from DOS).

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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