Re: isorecorder

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Pete Batard wrote:
> Yes, as we've discussed elsewhere, that is pretty much my point.

That's why i summarized the results of our wiggling and fitting with
Ubuntu ISO development.


> symlinks [...] will of course not translate to FAT [...]

Duh. I forgot that aspect in my summary.
So its proposal part should be:
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Both approaches are combinable:
- Have all EFI equipment as directory tree in the ISO filesystem. I.e.
  not only as image file or as appended partition.
- Make sure that the installation works without name conflicts from a
  filesystem with sloppy naming rules and without symbolic links.
  I.e. from FAT.
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As Pete pointed out in the Ubuntu discussions, name length is not
restricted to 8.3. Nevertheless very long package names can cause truncation
which might become a problem if two names get truncated to the same text,
or if truncation implies mangling to avoid such collisions.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas