Bug 60887 – LiveCD /etc/fstab file sometimes confusing newbies...

• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Thomas Gatliff 2004-08-19 06:01:38 UTC]

The /etc/fstab file on the live CD is identical to the fstab file the new user needs to modify during install at /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab and is sometimes causing confusion.  This is the second time I have gotten a call from a friend that was confused by their current base root location (ie. chroot()) and accidentally modified the /etc/fstab file thinking they were actually modifying /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab during install.

This is obviously a user error with no issue to the LiveCD itself, but the /etc/fstab file on the LiveCD is not required anyway unless we want a copy.  Maybe we could just delete it, or rename it to /etc/fstab.example?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a base LiveCD install
2. nano -w /etc/fstab
3. nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 06:24:18 UTC]

Actually, we're working on making the prompt different from the livecd and within the chroot.  That should fix most of the problems people are having.  We actually use the fstab on the livecd.  If you notice, it is slightly different from the one in the stages/baselayout.  We could, instead, remove the fstab and create one with *only* what we need, rather than simply appending to the bottom of the current one.

Adding zhen, since he's the catalyst junky.

[Comment 2 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 06:51:03 UTC]

We can always put a big comment on the livecd fstab, in the lines of "This isn't the real fstab" or "You shouldn't edit this fstab"...

[Comment 3 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 07:15:31 UTC]

Probably we can put a sed-call or something like that into catalyst that appends

#################################################
## ATTENTION : THIS IS THE FSTAB ON THE LIVECD ##
#################################################

Reassigning to zhen

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-09-13 07:27:17 UTC]

fixed in CVS