[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.35 released

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 29 12:48:39 PST 2007


Tomas M wrote:
>> The reason is that the installer would have to be able to do a 
>> VFAT-to-MSDOS transformation on the entire path in order to ...
> 
> Would it work if the path doesn't need to be transformed?
> I don't understand this much, so maybe I'm wrong. But I believe the path 
> will be the same after transformation when using only 8-character file 
> names, right?
> 
> Maybe I would suggest that syslinux would just try the directory name 
> untransformed, and if it works, then it's OK.
> 
> If it doesn't work for some reason then default behaviour is expected 
> (/boot/syslinux - /syslinux - /)
> 
> Just a suggestion.
> Thank you for consideration.
> 

That would definitely be possible, but I think I'd rather plan to do the 
right thing; it's really not all that complicated.

	-hpa




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