Re: "Warning" failure in chroot . . . EUREAKA!

From: David A. Cobb (Superbiskit_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/21/04

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To: Mark Pictor <mpictor@yahoo.com>, Debian Linux Distro Users Discussion <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    Mark Pictor wrote:

    >Sorry it took so long to reply.
    >
    >I don't know if this has anything to do with your
    >problems, but I have never used separate partitions.
    >(Unless, of course, it was a windows partition!)
    >Less install headache, and you don't run out of space
    >on one partition while wasting space elsewhere...
    >
    >
    >
    For Mark and everyone else who helped: Thank You All!

    Indirectly, my last exchange with Mark pointed out the problem.
    Because the VFAT partition doesn't support symlinks or chown / chmod
    changes, critical things
    failed in the /var file system.

    FOR THE TO-DO LIST: Both those problems are fixable -- the Cygwin
    project (www.cygwin.com) does a decent job of faking both on Windoze
    file systems. The symlinks are faked with windows shortcuts, I'll need
    to look at the rest.

    Now, of course, I get to wrestle with the other problems :-) 

    -- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!



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