Subject: Re: More 1.6.1 strangeness
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From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/19/2003 20:20:57
> Actually, I'm now of the opinion that all the disklabel and
> partitioning trouble can be ascribed to my forgetting to specify any
> mount points (which really makes this a recommendation that sysinst do
> at least minimal checking of mount points - in my case, it would have
> been enough to have checked that there is at least one partition with
> mount point /, and I would argue it should check for exactly one such.)
sysinst in 'current' tries lot harder, it will use the 'last mounted on'
field from the superblock as a default for the mount point.
I think it checks for '/' as well.
Update (and install extra packages) still assume that root is partition
'a' though.
David
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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk