Package: debian-installer Severity: critical Tags: d-i Justification: breaks the whole system X-Debbugs-Cc: foren...@wi.rr.com
Dear Maintainer, I'm on a different system than the problem one. For years I have had to boot knoppix and run a chroot to change a password I've forgotten, because I use a separate usr partition, and rescue thinks it's the root directory. Butr without etc it's not going to work. Most recently, I just wanted to install grub from the Debian install DVD, nothing else, but once again, with separate usr, no root shell. So I tried to go through the install and just skip to install grub, but it wouldn't allow it, because previous steps were skipped. ThAT FIASCO cost me 4 hours, about the same amount of time it would take to fix the rescue system. My suggestion is, if a user wants a separate usr, to place a hidden flag file in root, the presence of which informs the system to mount THAT partition AND look in /etc/fstab, and mount usr. I'd really like this back the way it was, but I realize /bin is now symlinks. Thanks for all the help. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
