Bug#587887: linux-base: please suppress useless debconf messages on first install

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:45:30PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Samstag, 3. Juli 2010, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Well, then its easy: don't create this useless entry. 
> 
> ok, I'm now using a post-base-installer hook in d-i to remove the cdrom entry 
> from /etc/fstab and voila, an inserted CDROM still pops up in KDE, yay.
> 
> But I still wonder why this linux-base postinst bothers about fstab entries 
> for /media/cdrom and /media/floppy at all. Those will never work with 
> UUIDs :)

It may complain about an ATAPI floppy, but not one handled by a platform
floppy driver.  As for /media/cdrom, its device should be specified as
/dev/cdrom or similar.

Ben.

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