Re: PROPOSAL for FHS revised : Mount points for CDs, floppies and alien OS partitions.]
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 12:21:23AM +0200, Hugo.van.der.Kooij@caiw.nl wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Brian F. Kimball wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:02:12PM +0200, Johannes Poehlmann wrote:
> >
> > > Problem:
> > > ========
> > >
> > > There is no defined/legal place, where cdroms, floppies or
> > > alien OS partitions go to.
> >
> > And why is this a problem? Why should it not be local policy? Perhaps
> > I missed this explanation in an earlier message.
>
> For one thing: It would be nice for a vendor to provide simple instruction
> to install their product on a LSB compliant environment.
>
> Not something like:
> For Debian: ....
> For Red Hat: ....
If that's truly one of the reasons for this proposal, then does anyone
else see the absurdity of forcing such a policy in an area that's
traditionally been left to the local system administrator so ISVs can
cater to the .001% of linux users who don't even know how to access the
data on their removable media (either with the mount command or through
a GUI)?
Installation instructions can't speak of specific mount points anyway,
because they won't know if the user wants the disk on /mount/cdrom0 or
/mount/cdrom1, or perhaps s/he copied the data to a zip disk and it's on
/mount/zip0, or perhaps the data's already on the user's Windows
partition and s/he needs to specify /mount/win98/data/ instead.
Brian
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