Re: [MiNT] directory for config files.

[Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:33:49PM +0200, Frank Naumann wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > Is there a way how values needed before xdd/xfs initialization (if there
> > > > are/were some) could be configured?
> > > 
> > > No.
> > 
> > Don't my messages reach the list properly?
> > I explained how to do just this a couple of days ago!
> 
> Ok, more precise: At the moment it's not implemented.

Reading mint.cnf twice is error-prone (for example I used to run
/etc/rc.boot and /etc/rc from mint.cnf).  If we really need extra
parameters, why not use a second config file "mintboot.cnf" that has one
standard location: the auto folder.

I still have no problems with more than one config/driver directory but I
*do* have problems with that naming scheme (mint.prg vs. mintnp.prg vs
mintvm.prg or what was it). The kernel doesn't need any external file
system driver to read that file. It would work and we wouldn't have to
explain newbies "well, the `exec' directive only gets executed in the
second go while PROTECTION=on/off is only evaluated in the first go" ...

Ciao

Guido
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