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Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big



On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:
>
>> I don't think sym-links are going to work - the filesystem code in
>> isolinux is very simple (e.g. it only supports basic 8.3 filenames!)
>> and I doubt it'll work. Hard links *might*, however.
>
>Largely immaterial, just for the sake of correctness: ISOLINUX does
>support "long" (level 2) ISO 9660 plain filenames.  Indeed no Rock Ridge
>or Joliet extensions, though, thus no symlinks, as you stated.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I guess we're just using filenames at
level 1, plus RR extensions.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
Into the distance, a ribbon of black
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