Bug#288409: please consider waiting before installing the base system
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:01:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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 ?
Well, when you're responsible for more than a handful machines, it is
generally a Good Thing[tm] to have them set up all the same.
> Oh, and BTW, install with debconf priority medium or less, and you will be
> dropped to the main menu after partman.
Where can I control debconf priority with d-i? It didn't ask me today.
Greetings
Marc
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