On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Matt Nelson wrote:
> >
> > out of curiosity, i switched to VC2 to check what was mounted:
> >
> > bash# mount
> > /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
> > /proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> > /dev/pts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> > /tmp/cdrom /mnt/source iso9660 ro 0 0
> > /tmp/hdb1 /mnt/sysimage/boot ext2 rw 0 0
> > /proc /mnt/sysimage/proc proc rw 0 0
> >
> > odd thing, my root partition isn't mounted anywhere; no wonder it
> > couldn't find any packages...
> >
> > By the way, will it give me a choice of which installation to upgrade?
> > I have two different Linux installations installed, one on /dev/hdb3 and
> > another on /dev/hdb4...
>
> It has asked me which installation I wanted to upgrade every time I've
> upgraded a machine with multiple installs on it. Which I've done quite
> a few times from the first beta onward. The strange thing from the
> listing of what you have mounted is it shows /boot as being mounted...
> if that's the correct partition for /boot there is no way the installer
> would have figured that out without looking at the /etc/fstab for the
> actual root of the system. I seem to remember that even on my laptop
> (which only has one distribution) it still asked if it had located the
> proper filesystem for /. I'm guessing that you hit next quickly without
> realizing it.
nope. it definitely never asked me if it had the right one. i was
wondering if/when it was going to ask me, so i was on the look out for it.
-matt
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