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Bug#249305: Debian-installer, beta-4



Mika Bostrom wrote:
>   As marked with '**' above, there are certain issues with partitioning.
> First, it is not exactly intuitive - the rest of the install is.
> Secondly, a person doing a relatively secure install will find himself
> shot on the foot. I chose mount options for /tmp: nodev,nosuid,noexec
> this was a bad idea.

There is absolutely no security benefit to noexec /tmp whatsoever.

>   That was the first bug with partitioning. Solution would be to call
> the second stage installer always with /bin/sh, not trying to execute it
> directly.

In general, this is impossible.

>   Trying to do a reinstall: I was happy with the partition layout and
> wouldn't have wanted to set it again; only wanted to remove the noexec
> flag from /tmp. This proved to be impossible. The partitioning menu,
> when faced with existing layout and filesystems, only displays three
> selections. Editing the partition and its options is not one of them.

Sure it is. Move the cursor to the paritition you wish to edit and press
enter.

>   There is one final issue with second stage of install. Setting up the
> packages winds up in an error.

Do you have the error message?

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