[X-Unix] Buggy Fink, sym & hard links.

[John Harrold]

Sometime in April Jamie Kahn Genet assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Also - here's an idea, and I'm a bit new to Unix so bear with any
| possible stupidity here - but what if I move the 'sw" folder and put a
| _hard_ link to the boot drive? If I understand correctly the OS treats a
| hard link as if it's there anyway. So would this fool the buggy software
| into thinking the 'sw' folder is where it wants it, while allowing me to
| have the space taken up on another drive?

Bear with me here, I'm new to macs, but I don't think you can make hard
links across different partitions. HFS+ might make this possible with the
resource forks and stuff.

| What, if anything will work here, please? I simply can't live within the
| restrictively small boot disk. Once I'm running a few programs it gets
| filled up by VM.

If you have the extra space, you could create a partition and mount it at
/sw. 

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