I can't duplicate this problem (I don't have a spare scratch disk to test with) but I suspect the mount error messages may have sufficiently improved with version 2.5. I really can't say much else about this particular case, considering the circumstance.
I would close this bug, but I don't know if anything should still be done about the install program. > Package: root disk > Version: 0.93R6 pre-release-1 > > I've noticed this wierdness with mount for quite some time and am > finally able to reproduce it. The problem is that in certain > situations mount prints erroneous or misleading error messages. > > When installing the new base system, I accidently typed in "/dev/hdb" > instead of "/dev/hdb1" when the installation program asked me which > partition I wanted to format. This itself is a bug! The installation > program should have caught this. Anyway, when I later tried to mount > /dev/hdb1 on / (using option 4 of the installation program), mount > gave the error message: > > mount: /dev/hdb1 mount point does not exist > > Of course, the mount point really does exist. The mount point is in > the ramdisk. The problem was a screwed up filesystem. > > So, "mount" needs to be fixed so that it prints appropriate error > messages. Also the install program needs to be fixed so that it won't > let the user make silly mistakes like this. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
