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Re: Recent disk set

> While installing the root disk, the ticking clock effect was spoiled by 
> the display of '<5>' before each tick through the \-|-/ characters.

The <5> is the logging level. If this still exists in 1.3.84 any novice
kernel hacker could fix it. Any volunteers to send a patch to Linus?

> I could have skipped this step, as the partition 
> in question already had a file system on it. It would be nice if the 
> installation software recognized this. I might still want to re-format 
> the drive, but the current interface method handles that nicely.

Am I mistaken, or was the choice you were given:

	Next:      Initialize a Linux Disk Partition
	Alternate: Mount a Previously-Initialized Linux Disk Partition

In any case, it's that way now. I can tell if there's a filesystem, but
I can't tell if it is an undamaged filesystem without running fsck and
making the user wait. I let the user make the decision.

> At the point the offer is made to install the kernel, the last base disk 
> is still in the drive. [...] There really needs to be a prompt here.

Fixed.

> On booting up the new system, everything went fine till dselect. When I 
> tried to get dselect to mount my CD it failed to mount /dev/scd0 because 
> the kernel has no iso9660 support! When I tried to load it as a module, I 
> found that it wasn't there! lsmod shows no modules presently loaded.

Is it not under /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/fs ? The next disk set has
the "modconf" package to help you deal with modules.

> I poked around the new system just looking around and found /etc/fstab 
> almost completely unreadable. The format is ugly. The column headers and 
> the column entries do not line up at all!

Yes, it's copied out of /etc/mtab, and thus is space-delimited.
This is also a problem if you use putfsent() to write /etc/fstab,
which the upcoming disk tool will do. If this is a big deal I can make
a script to clean up the format of /etc/fstab, or are there any volunteers
to do that?

	Thanks

	Bruce
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