NT does not support soft links, quite. It sort of does in the form of a
shortcut, but not really. It is a limitation of the NTFS and FAT
filesystems. For that matter, I don't think that ISO9660 (the CDROM file
system) does, either, although it might under the Rockridge extensions.
You might be better off trying to burn to the CD an image of an ext2
filesystem.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, John M. Mills wrote:
>
> 'Lo out there -
>
> I ported an RTEMS installation tree (headers, libs, format makefiles, and
> a few executables) from Linux to Cygwin32/Win[NT|98], and wanted to burn
> the tree onto a CD as a "portable toolbox". The tree has a set of libs
> (libstdc++.a...) which are soft-linked from cpu-dependent directories back
> to a common lib directory, and Cygwin provides some mechanism to effect
> the soft-link. I used 'tar cf - ...' to pass the tree from Linux to
> Win[NT|98] with no problems.
>
> Our CD burning program (from NTI -- runs in MSWin), failed to handle the
> soft-links correctly: instead of file contents, the 'soft-links' just
> contained text identifying themselves as "Softlink" and pointing to the
> target directories. Since the content was small (about 30 MBy out of ~250
> MBy), I just replaced the soft-links with the respective live files ('tar
> chf - ...') and am reburning with that tree, but I have two questions:
>
> 1) Does an ISO9660 file system use soft-links, or is this a 'no-no'? (I
> ran 'find' on a couple of samples and turned up no links.)
>
> 2) Could I have built an ISO image (i.e., in Linux), then expected a
> Win[NT|98] CD tool to burn it properly without trying to reformat it? Any
> specific recommendations (other than the obvious &;^)?
>
> Thanks for any info - I know zero about this.
>
> John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
> TGA Technologies, Inc.
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