The following is now updated to reflect: Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020315 20:22
An expert update packages, no package selection, should have no possible reason to interfere with the contents of /etc/lilo.conf. Yet it does as follows: It still does. > > Every lilo.conf line: > > > > append="devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" > > > > is quietly changed to: > > > > append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" This is still true, except it is now: append="devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi". Thus locking out the use of any second CD device (writer or reader). An expert update packages, no package selection should have no possible reason to interfere with the contents of /etc/fstab. Yet it does as follows: It still does. My /etc/fstab has just been quietly overwritten during an expert update packages, no package selection install by one from another partition, not even mounted! This is a nonsense, since the root partition designation will be incorrect. This problem has persisted consistently in all releases since I started with Mandrake 5.2. Imagine my total _horror_ to find it STILL there in 8.2. SHOW STOPPER! No further news. CD fstab lines have a -- parameter added which is illegal. These will not mount. Fixed, but now worse than ever! Now my two CD normal-mounting lines have been changed to a single supermount line. Supermount in its present state is useless to me. The order of the entries is changed. Still true. The columnisation of the entries is destroyed making the entries less readable. Still true. Remote devices are improperly prefixed by /dev/ as follows: Corrected. /dev/hdg13 /local/mandrake ext2 user,noauto,defaults 0 0 is changed to: /dev/hdg13 /mnt/hd ext2 user,noauto,defaults 0 0 Corrected. Note: /mnt is a symbolic name for /local, which exists to distinguish mount points for remote machines, which have the same mounting point names, because all machines on the LAN are set up identically. I only have two machines, so the other mounts on /remote. /mnt is an badly inadequate concept for networked machines. It should be /<machine name>. Thanks for beginning to adddress these bad situations. But it is only a beginning and still exhibits a half-hearted rogue update characteristic. Do not diddle around with things that you do not own (fstab and lilo.conf, and many others, are for sacred specification to the system of user requirements). -- Ron. [au]
