This seems way too simple, but is the attached patch enough to fix the TODO item about calling mkfstab in base-installer?
The only complication I can think of is that partconf-mkfstab might not be installed at the time that base-installer is installed. Also, I notice that you don't get the option to use ext3 in the "Configure and Mount Partitions" step if you don't go through the "Partition a hard drive" step. It seems like the ext3 module should be loaded by the configure and mount step if its not present already. Also, I'm sure you know this by now, but base-installer failed to download the release file. I'm using the official netinst cd from yesterday. I chose cdrom retreiver, and the last thing before the failure was I: Retrieving http:///debian/dists/sarge/Release E: Failed getting release file http:///debian/dists/sarge/Release -- michael cardenas | GNU/Linux software developer hyperpoem.net | lead software engineer, lindows.com people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "As a man is, so he sees." - William Blake
--- postinst.orig Sun Jun 8 14:15:17 2003
+++ postinst Sun Jun 8 14:03:41 2003
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@
COPIED_FSTAB=true
cp /target/etc/fstab /target/etc/fstab.orig
echo "# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM" >> /target/etc/fstab
+else
+ /usr/lib/partconf/mkfstab
fi
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