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? -- see shy jo
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