Bug#342933: installation-report: /mnt directory is missing in the VT screen boot layout

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

| root wrote:
| 
| > When the VT console is needed during the install, there is no
| > 
| > 	/mnt
| > 
| > direcctory to use for mounting local filesystems. 
| > 
| > SUGGESTION
| > 
| > create /mnt  to be used during the install trouble shooting.
| > (Usually need to check the WEP key from another partition, to
| > be filled in the questions.)
| > 
| > It woudl be even better if gpm could be running during install to
| > allow copy/paste effects from VT consoles to the questions.
| 
| The debian installer is a minimal system, this precules stuff like gpm,
| which doesn't work reliably accross a wide variety of hardware anyway.
| 
| If you need a /mnt directory, the system contains a mkdir command. As a
| minimal system there is no real reason to waste space on it by including
| a /mnt directory by default.

I would not call a preset "/mnt" waste of space, but an expected
layout. Thank you for considering.

Jari