On Thursday 01 February 2001 14:22, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2001 09:44, Pixel wrote:
> > Jim Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I just updated my personal cooker mirror today, and proceded with an
> > > install. The install went flawlessly for a change. But it really bummed
> > > me out, when I went to the partition to which I had the mirror, so that
> > > I could install BIND, and only found "lost+found". Great job, thanks.
> >
> > you need to tell more so that something can be done about it. Can you
> > mail me the /root/report.bug ?
>
> It's pretty obvious from guran's posting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> what's causing this
> - choosing the "clear the tmp directory at boot" - which I always use. If
> the mirror is mounted /mnt/tmp, then at reboot it becomes /tmp and so gets
> wiped out.
>
> Why not remember the original fstab and restore it before reboot?
Or you could mount the mirror as /mnt/disk/tmpinstall and email root.
You could also disable "clean out temp" for first install.
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Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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