Installing to arbitrary block devices

[Jody Belka]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:39:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:53:16PM +0100, Jody Belka wrote:
> > Well, not really done anything with the box yet, so i'll have a go at
> > reinstalling sometime this week. Thanks for the info. It's just mounting
> > stuff under /target and writing the fstab that partman does, right?
> > Nothing else that would be expected to be done?
> 
> You should make sure to create /var/lock and /var/run on the root
> filesystem, regardless of whether you're mounting /var separately; our
> boot process requires that. partman also takes care of creating /cdrom
> as a symlink to /media/cdrom. I think that's all.


Ok, will do. Thanks for the help. I'll let you know how it goes.


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