Bug#288409: please consider waiting before installing the base system
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:59:20PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.
And it is a Good Thing to have them set up in a sane way too :)
> > 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.
RTFM :)
Seriously, you either set DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium as boot argument, or the new
version thereof (debconf/priority i think, but check the manual).
Alternatively, you can abort another step, and the priority will immediately
fall back one step, and drop you in the main menu, where there is a adjust
priority item.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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