Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 01/02/06 01:13 CST: > Unfortunately, setting codepage on CD-ROMS breaks things (codepage=... > is not a valid mount option for iso9660). Sorry for providing a > half-broken example in the first place.
No problem. Actually, Alexander, I had done a poor research job on the capabilities provided by the device information files the first time around messing with HAL. I've got a much better handle on things now (so I think, anyway). In fact, I think we can clean up your example file so that it will work with any medium formatted with any filesystem type. > Attached is a known-good version > for ru_RU.UTF-8. Codepage is set only for vfat. In fact, if it is OK to > break DOS compatibility and stay compatible only with MS Windows >= > 98SE, codepage is not needed at all. I think we can do both. However, perhaps I am being too optimistic and should actually test this stuff before questioning you. :-) Anyway, I'm going to throw out some thoughts and get your reaction. > <!-- Add iocharset and codepage to device types that may need them > and for which the filesystem type cannot be known in advance. > WARNING: this breaks mounting ext2-formatted floppies, > but it is impossible to have correct flags both for media > that doesn't need iocharset and for media that does. Here is where I am confused. Why is it impossible? We can determine the media and we can determine the filesystem type, right? And since we can determine exactly what we are dealing with, we should be able to define rules to fit whatever it is that is discovered? At least that's the way I see it. What am I missing? I'll wait and get your reaction to my questions before doing anything with the book. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 09:17:01 up 99 days, 18:41, 3 users, load average: 1.18, 1.04, 0.69 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
