Installing Fedora-12 from USB

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Dec 9 19:08:00 UTC 2009


Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and
>> not a 
>> separate partition?  See at:
>> <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/root-not-allowed.jpg>
> ----
> I would presume that with runlevel 1 (single user mode), that it would
> be a problem to run as root and root's home directory is not available.
> 
Why would it be missing? The /root mount point would be there, the home 
directory would just be empty, and that's not an issue.

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