Glenn -
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the comments. I was going to try one of two approaches for my
next CD, and see if it worked:
1. Overlay the Win executables from my WinNT box onto the ext2 tree in my
Linux box, then run 'mkisofs' on that to produce the CD image, or else
2. Build the directory tree in WinNT/Cygwin space and 'tar' it back into
the Linux box before running 'mkisofs'.
These may be equivalent.
It seems that I have to move the CD image into a Win hard-disk in order
that it work properly, rather than running from the CD - at least that was
the case for my home Win95/Cygwin setup, so the least ambitious, most
inelegant approach may be what I have to use anyway: just make a zipped
tarball and put that on a CD as a single file, then extract it into
whatever Win/Cygwin environment. That is how I initially ported from my
WinNT box to a Win98 laptop, except I used a shared drive on our network
rather than a CD.
In fact, any of these would be acceptable for our needs.
Thanks,
John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
TGA Technologies, Inc.
100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
Norcross, GA 30071-3633
e-mail: ">jmills@tga.com
Phone: 770-441-2100 ext.124 (voice)
770-449-7740 (FAX)
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