Bug 4396

Summary:	Installation breaks when installing from the partition to be mounted /
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Fabian Kroenner <escher>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Fabian Kroenner 1999-08-06 15:53:01 UTC

When using the local hard-drive partition that is going to
be mounted root as installation source, setup reports an
error:
"Failed to create symlink for package source."

Console 3 shows:
"* failed to create symlink /mnt//: File exists"

Really annoying!

Comment 1 Jay Turner 1999-08-06 17:10:59 UTC

You cannot do this with the Red Hat installer.  You must have the
source files on a non-critical filesystem (that is not /, /usr, /var
or any other place that the install needs to write files to).  Closing
report as it is not a bug, but rather a fundamental of the installer
program.