On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 02:43:08AM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > Marcus et al - /etc/fstab is not owned by any debian package, so doesn't > > get installed if people cross-install .debs . I had removed this section > > from the Idiot's guide, but wonder whether I should put it back....? > > Yes, please put it back. The other possibility would be to autocreate it > with the information from "mount" command and comparing path of > installation. But this does only work in some circumstances, not in all.
Hows about: You edit your script (cross-install) to exec ./fstabmake /hurd where /hurd is the name of the hurd partition that was passed to the script. I'll write some nice clean C that takes that argument, looks at the return of mount (or makes the appropriate syscalls), and creates a vanilla /etc/fstab. It seems a little bit of a cop-out to say "We can't produce an /etc/fstab, so you'll have to do it yourself" Sound OK? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
