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Re: Potato install won't let me set root password.



Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> Hm, I wonder if we make it too easy to mount an existing linux partition
> the installer hasn't formatted onto / . Mounting such a partition onto
> /home is of course a Good Thing, mounting it to root is not.

The other Joey is adding some basic checks for this in relation to a
wishlist bug we made before. 

It's possible we should probably add a big fat warning whenever somene
mounts w/o initializing something on / (or maybe /usr too) because god
knows what can happen when you do that.

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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