Bug 150722

Summary: Installation Error from Harddisk installation
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Vinay Khaitan <vkhaitan>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: suse-beta
Version: Beta 3   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Other   
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Description Vinay Khaitan 2006-02-14 10:12:01 UTC 
When we install from harddisk, yast mounts the harddisk and access the files from there.
When we give mount points to yast in partitioning dialog, it tries to mount all the mountpoints. Now, because one partition is already mounted, it is not able to mount it again. So it gives an error.
After that, it closes the instllation and goes back to the installation menu.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-02-14 12:06:13 UTC 
Please give more information about that scenario (device names) why is there an overlap here?
Comment 2 Vinay Khaitan 2006-02-14 12:23:32 UTC 
My harddisk installation tree resided in /dev/hda5 .
So yast mounted it and accessed tree from that partition.

Now partitionar is trying to mount the same parition as /windows/D (because I have set that entry for fstab) .
So it is again trying to mount it. What should happen actually is that it should not try to mount it at all.
Comment 3 Michael Gross 2006-02-14 13:10:46 UTC 
> After that, it closes the instllation and goes back to the installation menu.
You mean it falls back to linuxrc (the blueish ASCII based menu)? No way to skip or ignore the error?
Comment 4 Vinay Khaitan 2006-02-14 16:38:40 UTC 
Yes, that is exactly what I mean!
There is no way to ignore error.
Comment 5 Michael Gross 2006-02-14 16:47:39 UTC 
Thomas: As (in this case) this is really no critical error, the user should be able to ignore it - better of course would be the partitioner knowing the critical partitions, namely those which are required for the installation process. This should be fixed for the final in my opinion.
Comment 6 Thomas Fehr 2006-03-13 12:58:12 UTC 
Installation via harddisk is not officially supported.