11.3.0 build 4 released, for *XO-1.75*, XO-1.5 and XO-1

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Sun Sep 11 18:11:55 EDT 2011


On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> I made the suggestion on adding an a/i to the build so it would be
> os4i.zd4 or os4a.zd4. It would still keep us within the 8.3 format
> expected by OFW.

OpenFirmware can take longer names, it's just the FAT filesystem that
can't, and the extended name support is unavailable.

I think we're wasting the first two characters of the name.  On the
other hand, deployments have taken to using these characters to identify
their builds; dx and au.

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/



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