I have recently had to do another install: this time, not because I'd messed up the OS, but to accomodate a CD-RW I was very happy to receive for Xmas. I was reminded of a point which had struck me on an earlier install, and would like someone from Linux-<andrake to comment. My system is LM7.0 upgraded to 7.1 (Magazine cover disks) [+ P233MMX, 64MB RAM, and a total of 5GB had space].Because of the 'absence' of C++ header files on the 7.1 disk (subject of much correspondence a bit back!), I install 7.0 and then upgrade to 7.1: This leaves me with a useable C++ compiler. When it comes to specifying mount points, I specify /dos for the main W98 partition (hda1) and /cd_buffer for a 750MB partition on hdb that is there for just what it says! [In fact, to do the install, it is necessary due to problems with the CD-RW - I'm not the only person to eccounter this, going by recent correspondence - I copy the CD to my /cd_buffer from windows and do a pcmcia install from hd] Comes to specify mount points: /dos - fine, /cd_buffer: I can't, because the disk is in use - no hassle. When 7.0 is installed, /dos is unused, and instead I have /mnt/windows. If no notice is going to be taken of the mount point I specify, the WHY ASK? Similar procedure for upgrading to 7.1. and again, the mount points have been changed. This time it's more drastic, because I've configured a few programs to use my favoured settings. For Netscape I share the Mail directory between Windows and all Linux 'users' - no security risk, I'm the only person to use the machine, and the non-root users are just for convenience. BUT, my default Inbox is no longer present, so Netscape won't load. I also share the 'My Documents' directory between Windows and all 'users', so I have problems there as well. So I have, tediously and not completely without risk, to manually reconfigure all the affected mount points. WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO DO THIS? Would it be too much to ask the upgrade program to parse fstab to see what's where - it obviously does for /home and /usr/local. I hope someone at Linux-Mandrake might be able to enlighten me. As a futher, small, point, is there any reason why, following the upgrade, programs such as joe and klyx - not on my LM7.1 disk, but apparently on the extension CD - no longer appear on the menus, evenif I run update-menus? Ronnie Whipp. ============
