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Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools



Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> 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 ...)

Shouldn't other modules use /target/etc/fstab?

MfG
        Goswin



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