Bug 105454

Summary:	Installer fails to honour mount points set during install
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Roger Whittaker <roger>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	All
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	YaST logs

Description Roger Whittaker 2005-08-18 10:34:06 UTC

The fstab which was written did not honour the information entered in the
"Partitioning" section of yast during the installation: instead they were
written int fstab just as /data1 etc

Possible reason - I did the install from hard disk (install=hd:/) and the
installer couldn't / wouldn't mount the partition I was installing from to the
mount point I told it for that partition (there was an error message at that
point) - so did it fail for the other partitions too?

Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-18 10:37:22 UTC

Please provide YaST log of the installation, see:
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST

Comment 2 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-18 10:51:41 UTC

It is not possible to use the disk or partition you are installing from 
for anything else excpet as installation source. 
Do not assign this partition any mount point.

Comment 3 Roger Whittaker 2005-08-18 10:54:06 UTC

Created attachment 46458 [details]
YaST logs

YaST logs as requested

Comment 4 Roger Whittaker 2005-08-18 12:55:31 UTC

It might be good if the installer just ignored the partition we're installing
from rather than refusing to write the fstab at all.  Or else: it should give an
error message indicating that it won't be writing the expected fstab.

Comment 5 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-18 12:58:31 UTC

I just thought about implementing this, but it would just lead into problems
with second stage installation since after system startup the package manager
would stumble over the same problem (since partition is in /etc/fstab it will
be mounted at system startup).

As already said, it is not possible to use a mount point for the partition
with installation sources. 

Since installation via disk is not officially supported anyway I think it is
acceptable to live with that restriction.