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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 01:01, Robert Watson wrote:
> > > I have ktrace'd it and when I click 'Yes' on the CDROM prompt it only
> > > seems to try and open fstab and mtab. It ends up with a FreeBSD fstab
> > > and /compat/linux/etc/mtab which is a zero length file.
> >
> > Is it expecting /compat/linux/etc/mtab to be updated somehow when you
> > mount the new disk?
>
> linprocfs exports an mtab file from the kernel that's appropriate for use
> as a substitute, I believe.  You can try symlinking etc/mtab to
> procfs/mtab in the linux namespace.

In the end SETUP_CDROM=/cdrom worked.
I thought I'd tried it but apparently not..

Now if only nvidia would fix their drivers so I could run it from in KDE 
without hanging the PC..

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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