Installing Fedora-12 from USB

[Bill Davidsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:08 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> 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.
> ----
> good point
> 
> I think that actually provides more of the actual reason why anaconda
> doesn't permit a /root mounted partition though because it would toss
> the logs into /root and the mount would hide the logs (but of course
> anaconda could probably move the files to the mounted partition but that
> would require more coding. 
> 
I didn't mean to sound as if I favored /root as a filesystem, but the logic is 
bogus, the directory will certainly be there. The main use of the stuff in /root 
is for backup of local changes.  ;-)

find /etc -mnewer /root/install.log | cpio -oB -Hustar |
gzip -9v >etc-new-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz

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