Re: directory structure

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 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).

Not a problem when using RR extensions but I'm pretty sure they are not seemed
under DOS (they appear only in RR records).  So we could use hardlinks
instead.  mkisofs is handling them quite well (no duplicates).

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