Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower

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

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:57:13PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > This procedure worked, except for two "minor" glitches:
> > 
> > 2) When it came time to reboot and run the configuration part, the
> > /etc/fstab file was empty so the reboot failed.  I had to boot
> > single user and do
> >         mount -o remount /dev/hdc8 /
> > to make root writeable.  Then I edited /etc/fstab to know about my
> > root filesystem.
> > 
> 
> It occurs to me (now -- that it's not 4AM -- and my head is a bit
> clearer) that I could have fixed the empty fstab problem before the
> reboot by editing /target/etc/fstab because /target is mounted writeable
> at that time.

Yeah, but maybe you didn't notice this. It is a bug, and needs to be
fixed.

Friendly,

Sven Luther