Re: Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:52:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Dan C wrote:
> > + rootpart_devfs=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1156681320
>
> It seems that base-installer finds the root partition by the rather
> broken method of doing a "df /target". I assume that you have a large
> root partition, of more than 100 gb in size, and probably the df
> output does not add whitespace between the partition name and the size
> in this case.
Oof. We probably need to fix a load of *-installer packages if that's
going to be a problem. (I don't have that much disk on my test system,
so I've never seen this ...)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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