On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:59:20PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:01:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:00:12PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:50:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > I am curious, why in hell do you want to put these partitions under > > > > /mnt and > > > > not under / directly ? > > > > > > That one is actually a relic from pre-LVM times when it was hard to > > > repartition, and partitions didn't have a useable label. > > > > > > The advantage is that you can quite easily symlink disk space from one > > > of the mounted partitions somewhere else without having the borrowed > > > space show up in the file system tree where you won't expect it > > > (/usr/var, *yuck*), and that you can easily see what kind of > > > filesystem you have when it's not mounted where it belongs. > > > > Well, ok, but this probably means that there is no reason to use this > > strange > > setup in anything installed with d-i, is it now ? > > Well, when you're responsible for more than a handful machines, it is > generally a Good Thing[tm] to have them set up all the same.
And it is a Good Thing to have them set up in a sane way too :) > > Oh, and BTW, install with debconf priority medium or less, and you will be > > dropped to the main menu after partman. > > Where can I control debconf priority with d-i? It didn't ask me today. RTFM :) Seriously, you either set DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium as boot argument, or the new version thereof (debconf/priority i think, but check the manual). Alternatively, you can abort another step, and the priority will immediately fall back one step, and drop you in the main menu, where there is a adjust priority item. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
