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

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

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:00:12PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:50:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I am curious, why in hell do you want to put these partitions under /mnt and
> > not under / directly ? 
> 
> That one is actually a relic from pre-LVM times when it was hard to
> repartition, and partitions didn't have a useable label.
> 
> The advantage is that you can quite easily symlink disk space from one
> of the mounted partitions somewhere else without having the borrowed
> space show up in the file system tree where you won't expect it
> (/usr/var, *yuck*), and that you can easily see what kind of
> filesystem you have when it's not mounted where it belongs.

Well, ok, but this probably means that there is no reason to use this strange
setup in anything installed with d-i, is it now ? 

Oh, and BTW, install with debconf priority medium or less, and you will be
dropped to the main menu after partman.

Friendly,

Sven Luther