On Wednesday 28 April 2010 06:40:33 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:10:04 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 April 2010 15:32:28 giovanni_re wrote: > >> Did ubuntu do something unwise with making use of UUIDs, & now they are > >> backtracking? Did Debian do any of that? > > > > The Lenny installer defaults to populating /etc/fstab with UUIDs, IIRC. > > The Etch installer still just used device names. UUIDs aren't directly > > related to HAL, although HAL can make use of them. > > My Lenny installation defaulted to "/dev/sdax" nomenclature in both, "/ > boot/grub/menu.lst" and "/etc/fstab". Could just be me mis-remembering then. Most of the Lenny installs I deal with are either installed with debootstrap (no d-i) or are Etch upgrades. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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