Chris,

I dont remember where but in one of your documertation sets i saw a comment about ediing
etc\mtools.con

and adding MTOOL_SKIP_CHECK=1

what does that do?

just trying to learn

thanks

J

Spelling correction

mtools are tools to work with ms-dos disks. For example you can set a label on a vfat partition with the command mlabel.
When using the mtools in scripts, you don't want that these commands are prompting/asking questions/being verbose.
That breaks the scripts.
MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1
--> let the commands skip certain checks, that would lead to a 'question' when running in a script.

Edit: Oops, the following is wrong:
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We had some mtools commands in our specific scripts.
But not any longer.
You don't need it.
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We don't need it in the script that creates the persistent loop file, because we don't work with a label on a vfat partition.

But we still need it for the "Create Live USB" script. The syslinux command, which installs the syslinux booloader on the partition, calls a certain mtool utility in the background.

cool

thanks

j