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Re: installing kernel on vfat fs failed



On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:23:48PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Do you think it would be reasonable to add some if-statement to
> the kernel installer checking for a vfat filesystem before creating
> the symbolic link or (even better) before asking the user?

Not really.  Doesn't the Debian installer forbid installation of /boot (and
/ and /usr and /var ...) on filesystem types that don't support Unix
semantics? If not, it should.

I think the kernel package is the wrong layer at which to check for this.

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