Bugzilla – Bug 105454
Installer fails to honour mount points set during install
Last modified: 2005-08-18 12:58:31 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?
Please provide YaST log of the installation, see: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST
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.
Created attachment 46458 [details] YaST logs YaST logs as requested
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.
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.