Bug 4396 – Installation breaks when installing from the partition to be mounted /

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Bug 4396 - Installation breaks when installing from the partition to be mounted /

Summary:	Installation breaks when installing from the partition to be mounted /

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	installer (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-08-06 11:53 EDT by Fabian Kroenner
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-08-06 13:10:02 EDT
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Description Fabian Kroenner 1999-08-06 11:53:01 EDT

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 13:10:59 EDT

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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