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Re: sarge install problems on powerpc



On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:20:05PM +1200, Allen Unueco wrote:
> It seems to me like after setup base-config has been run the installer 
> is trying to install the kernel. On one console I see an warning saying 
> "failed to bind /target/cdrom" and then apt update fails.

Oh, hey, that's just the base-files/base-installer mismatch; it's fixed
in newer versions of base-installer. Try a newer businesscard or else a
netinst.

> I'm not sure why it is trying to mount the cdrom to /target/cdrom,

It's a bind mount (mount one bit of the filesystem somewhere else as
well); see mount(8).

> first of all the cd is already mounted to /cdrom and there is no
> directory named /target/cdrom

That was the problem; base-installer creates it now.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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