On Sunday, December 20, 2015 05:54:19 AM Philip Webb wrote: > 151220 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 20 December 2015 05:19:13 CET, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > >> My Fstab has long had these lines : > >> # NB The next line is critical for boot! > >> none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > >> > >> When did this change & why ? Does anyone know ? > > > > It's been deprecated for a while. Not sure when, it was in a news item. > > It certainly hasn't been in stage3 tarballs for the past 2 years. > > I checked the default Fstab which came with Stage 3 > & there's no sign of it, so I deleted it, rebooted & everything works. > There were also these lines : > # >= glibc 2.2 expect tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm > # for POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). > # tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk > # and will use almost no memory if not populated with files. > # Adding the following line should take care of this: > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > I deleted them too & it seems to have had no effect. > > However, I was amused to see that the Stage 3 Fstab does have the line : > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 > Does anyone still use diskettes ? Today's mobos have no slot for them.
I actually still have a drive and some diskettes. I also have a USB diskdrive somewhere... Haven't actually checked any mobos for floppy-connectors. Got some old ones that do have a connector. -- Joost
