Re: hamm to slink with upgrade
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:12:06 -0500, you wrote:
>Marc Haber wrote:
>> I have my cdrom not on /cdrom, but on /mnt/cdrom. /etc/fstab shows
>> this. However, apt-cdrom tries to mount /cdrom and fails.
>>
>
>Edit your /etc/fstab file so /dev/hdc (or whatever device your cdrom is) is mounted
>on /cdrom -- change the "/mnt/cdrom" to "/cdrom", then type:
>
> mkdir /cdrom
> umount /mnt/cdrom (assuming you're already mounted on the cdrom . . if not then
>skip this line)
> mount /cdrom
Why is everybody today taking me for a bloody newbie? I have moved my
cdrom mount point to /mnt _on_ _purpose_ because that's where mount
points belong.
Alone the assumption that I have IDE devices in my system could be
taken as an insult.
apt should get this flexibility built in.
Greetings
Marc
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