OK, it's unmounted then, but it should remount the drive if its untouched or ask if it should remount it. I'm not repartitioning the drive, but I had to change the types of the partitions, cause I can't do it easily from AmigaOS (I dunno the hex for LNX\0). The partition holding root is unchanged so remounting it would be harmless.
The reason why I did use a partition to hold root.bin was that I tried to install Debian with only 4 MB. With only 4 MB ram you don't have enough space the kernel and a ramdisk, so I used a spare partition for it. It works fine, except from the reboot I had to make to get root remounted again. Bruce Perens wrote: > > Yes, it would do that. The problem is that un-mounting / leaves it > mounted read-only, not unmounted. You can't unmount root. If it > remounts it at all, it doesn't do it correctly, and re-partitioning the > disk that root is running on is problematical, to say the least. > On the PC installation floppy root would be a RAM disk at this point, > and this problem would never come up. I wonder if your boot parameters > are wrong, or if it is a 68k-specific issue. > > Thanks > > Bruce > > From: Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I found a bug in the installation procedure on my Amiga, but the same > > will probably happen on all systems. > > > > When I try to partition the drive my root.bin is on during installation, > > it pops up a requester asking to unmount / before starting fdisk on it. > > After quitting fdisk it remounts /, but the installation routines > > complain about / being read-only and nothing works anymore. > > > > To reproduce this behavior on another system you need a spare partition > > at least the size of the root.bin (e.g. the swap partition). Dump the > > root.bin onto it and boot with it as root. Select the keyboard and then > > fdisk it (be carefull not to change anything that might erase youre > > data). Just quiting it again should do the trick. > > Before fdisk is started the installation routine will complain about the > > root mounted from that drive and unmount it. After fdisk it will remount > > it and you have the above bug. > > > > Can somebody second this on another system or is it just my Amiga? > > > > > > May the Source be with you. > > Mrvn. > > > -- > Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 > Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. > PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
