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docs: add information about image symlinks to the Getting Started page

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``ar71xx-generic`` is the most common target and will generate images for most of the supported hardware.
To see a complete list of supported targets, call ``make`` without setting ``GLUON_TARGET``.
The built images can be found in the directory `output/images`. Of these, the factory
You should reserve about 10GB of disk space for each `GLUON_TARGET`.
The built images can be found in the directory `output/images`. Of these, the `factory`
images are to be used when flashing from the original firmware a device came with,
and sysupgrade is to upgrade from other versions of Gluon or any other OpenWrt-based
and `sysupgrade` is to upgrade from other versions of Gluon or any other OpenWrt-based
system.
You should reserve about 10GB of disk space for each `GLUON_TARGET`.
**Note:** The images for some models are identical; to save disk space, symlinks are generated instead
of multiple copies of the same image. If your webserver's configuration prohibits following
symlinks, you can use the following command to resolve these links while copying the images::
cp -rL output/images /var/www
Cleaning the build tree
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There are two levels of `make clean`::
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