Bug#288409: please consider waiting before installing the base system

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:21:50PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: install
> Version: d-i 20050103
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have partitioned my disk as follows:
> 
> hda1  Windows
> hda2  Swap
> hda3  root (XFS 200 MB) /
> hda4  physical volume
>       vg0  volume group
>            usr XFS 8G /mnt/usr
> 	   home XFS 8G /mnt/home
> 	   var XFS 7G /mnt/var
> 
> As you can see, this partition layout needs some links to be set after
> mounting the filesystems.
> 
> d-i, however, starts installing right away and naturally runs into a
> "no space left on device" status pretty fast.

I am curious, why in hell do you want to put these partitions under /mnt and
not under / directly ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther