FC4 install. What have I done ?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Jun 20 15:37:48 UTC 2005


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 6/18/05, Bill Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 2005-18-06 at 13:24 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi;
>>>I am scratching my head.  Somehow FC4 has expanded from its *.iso
>>>files
>>>into installation files in my /backup directory wiping out all iso
>>>files
>>>and backups.
>>
>>What I did is so embarrassingly stupid that I am not even going to put
>>an explanation on the list.
>>
>>Regards Bill
>>
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> 
> 
> Then how are others, who search the achives, expected to learn from
> your mistake? Go ahead, Bill, tell us. We won't laugh.

He loopback-mounted FC4-i386-disc1.iso on /backup, hiding the original 
contents of that directory and provoking the symptoms he described in 
his original post.

Paul.




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