On 27-Mar-01 Don Head wrote:
>> > Yesterday i installed Beta2 from an iso.
>> > The only real issue i had with it was that after i
>> > chose to clean /tmp at boot, it _cleaned_ /tmp at
>> > boot. It took about 2 minutes for it.
>>
>> that's the problem when you choose CLEAN_TMP at
>> install.....
>
> I think the important question is, who's at fault here?
> Was it a mistake in that he mounted the wrong partition
> as /tmp, or did the installer setup a partition to be
> mounted as /tmp? If you're doing an install from the
> hard drive, and it mounts the installation source as
> /tmp after the install is done, then this is an installer
> problem. Nothing should ever be mounted in /tmp. That's
> what /mnt is for.
>
> I dunno what the details were here, nor whether or not
> hard drive installs do this. I'm just stating an
> opinion.
Thanks for stating that opinion.
The details were that I didn't choose to mount anything on /tmp, but that
the installer did that automagically.
So I'd say that the installer was at fault.
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Marcel Pol
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