On Saturday 27 September 2003 07:39 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:10, Bruce E. Harris wrote:
> > Boy do I feel stupid. Never crossed my mind that these were
> > place holder, I figured Gentoo has a different idea....
> >
> > it works now.
>
> Don't worry about it.
>
> If you're new to Gentoo (like me) then let me point out that when
> you start doing a lot of updates you are one of these days run
> etc-update and the program is going to give you a 'new' fstab file.
> When it does, those names ROOT. BOOT and SWAP are going to
> reappear, and you'r going to have to enter these again. Write down
> the values and watch out for this problem as it's pretty common.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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Those names,ROOT. BOOT and SWAP won't reapear all by themselves. When
you do some updates and portage tells you that there are 12
configuration files that need updating, BE VERY CAREFUL Look over
every file that etc-update lists. In most cases, a file that you've
never altered yourself can be safely overwritten but files like
resolv.conf, make.conf and fstab will hurt you bad if you're not
careful.
Also, For Bruce, I tell anyone about to install Gentoo to get very
stupid. Those of us with some Linux knowledge may get ahead of
ourselves and make assumptions. If we swallow our pride and follow
the instructions TO THE LETTER we are usually successful
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Regards, Ernie
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