> > Ah, the old local.start hack > > Apparently we should never use it for things like > this. But we all > do :-) > > As a solution it's OK to do this, as long as you > always remember that > you put it there - future updates often end up doing > strange things > because of the contents of local.start, and the > machine owner meanwhile > has forgetten all about it... :-)
I remember on an earlier installation I added the mknod command to local.start and when the PC booted there were dozens of lines in the boot console that said something like "mknod: device already exists". But not this time. > Ok, those versons should be fine. It's been a while > since I used those > (I use ~x86), but there's no harm in emerging them, > commenting out the > contents of local.start and seeing what happens > IIRC the last time I updated baselayout it overwrote some important files and my system was un-usable. In all the excitement I failed to note what they were. Is there a list somewhere? -Maxim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
