George, You could try booting from an debian install cd/dvd and choosing the rescue option. Then you'll have to chroot into you installation and fix the mountpoints. But this is a work-around, it shouldn't be so hard to do.
Cheers, Daniel On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 20:30 -0500, George P Boutwell wrote: > Hey, > > I have a few questions about how to actually implement some things > laid out in the Securing Debian How-To... > > I read in there that it's preferred to set-up separate partitions for > mount points such as /tmp, /var/tmp, & /home. I tried to do this on the > last debian install I did for my firewall. I'm preparing to re-do this > machine for Etch (along with some hardware upgrades), but I ran into a > problem when trying to do this. I don't remember the exact details, but > the problem I think revolved around not being able to properly boot-up > since the /tmp and/or the /var/tmp where needed during the boot, but not > being mounted yet. Anyone experienced this problem before and/or have > an suggestion on how to get around this problem? > > Thanks, > > George > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
