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Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower



Clearly it's a bug.

And I'll be submitting an installation report / bug report on this and
the other bug I noticed.

Probably this evening.

Rick

Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> 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



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