Add the following further installer coding error: 3. 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:
Every lilo.conf line: append="devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" is quietly changed to: append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" Again, who is responsible for this ongoing destructive damage to Mandrake's reputation? Tell them it is possible and quite legitimate to have 4, or even more, CDROM devices. Again, let me say that I do not suffer fools gladly. Where is QA? Asleep at the wheel? Ron Stodden wrote: > > Further fstab errors discovered in Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020314 > 23:08: > > Ron Stodden wrote: > > > > Re: Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 > > Now Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020314 23:08 > > > 2. 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: > > > > 2a. CD fstab lines have a -- parameter added which is illegal. These > > will not mount. Fixed, > > > > 2b. The order of the entries is changed. > > > > 2c. The columnisation of the entries is destroyed making the entries > > less readable. > > > > 2d. Remote devices are improperly prefixed by /dev/ as follows: > > > > big:/local/mandrake /remote/mandrake/ ext2 noauto,user,default 0 0 > > > > is changed to: > > > > /dev/big:/local/mandrake /remote/mandrake/ ext2 noauto,user,default 0 0 > > > > making them illegal and unmountable. > > 2e (new). My line: > > /dev/hdg13 /local/mandrake ext2 user,noauto,defaults 0 0 > > is changed to: > > /dev/hdg13 /mnt/hd ext2 user,noauto,defaults 0 0 > > which is also inconsistent with 2d. > > Note: /mnt is a symbolic name for /local, which exists to distinguish > mount points for remote machines, which have the same names, because all > machines on the LAN are set up identically. They mount on > /remote. /mnt is an badly inadequate concept. > > > Who is responsible for this ongoing destructive damage to Mandrake's > > reputation? > > > > Let me say that I do not suffer fools gladly. > > My question has not been answered and still stands, as do my comments. > > -- > Ron. [au] -- Ron. [au] Kindly note my new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and new web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/
