On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 15:43, martin f krafft wrote: > Fellow Debianistas, > > Why does Debian drop symlinks to vmlinuz and initrd.gz into the root > directory? The FHS does allow it (after all), but it's butt-ugly, if > you ask me. Because /vmunix is the traditional location of the kernel on Unix and Unix-like systems? That's my guess. I don't really know though. Adam