mindwave Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted August 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 Chris, I dont remember where but in one of your documertation sets i saw a comment about ediing etc\mtools.con and adding MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1 what does that do? just trying to learn thanks J Spelling correction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 (edited) 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: ________________ We had some mtools commands in our specific scripts. But not any longer. You don't need it. _______________________________ 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. Edited August 31, 2007 by chris:b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted August 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 cool thanks j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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