Installing Fedora-12 from USB

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Dec 8 03:39:19 UTC 2009


On Monday 07 December 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.
>
Are you saying that in runlevel 1, not all partitions in /etc/fstab are 
mounted?

If they are not, why not?  Pointers to the docs are fine.

>But I am sure you will feel free to abuse your boxes however you see
>fit.

Nope, really, I just like continuity.  Once I have something fixed, I want it 
to stay fixed, across upgrades.

>Craig
>


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