Bug 4396 - Installation breaks when installing from the partition to be mounted /
Summary: Installation breaks when installing from the partition to be mounted /
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-08-06 15:53 UTC by Fabian Kroenner
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-06 17:10:02 UTC

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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.
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