On Thu 04 May 2017 at 15:38:22 (-0500), Michael Milliman wrote: > Hmm....I had a similar problem with the installer, though in my case I > had put the installation DVD image on a thumb drive. Everything worked > fine up to a point. Then I had to do something a little out of the > ordinary and the same thing happened to me...it wanted to remount the > the file system but tried to do so from /dev/sr0, assuming I guess that > was where the medium was. It refused to remount from the thumb drive. I > suspect that this does need to be reported so that it can be > addressed...It is way to late for me to do so as it was some time ago, > and I haven't preserved enough information about the situation to be of > much help in a bug report.
I'm trying to think back several years… IIRC the debian-installer mounts installation media on /instmnt, so what happens if, before you do whatever thing tries to remount the fs, you first make a symlink called /instmnt which points to the already mounted medium? > On 05/04/2017 08:53 AM, Stefan Helmert wrote: > > If I start from debian 8.7.1 live cd/dvd over pxe and nfs, everything is > > working fine. But clicking the installer desktop icon does nothing. This > > happens, because the installer tries to mount the medium again. It tries to > > mount /dev/sr0. But there is no /dev/srv0 because the medium is available > > as mounted nfs. > > > > The installer should not mount the medium again. The medium is already > > mounted by the live system. I think this happens, because the developer of > > the live install medium thought: I take the install medium and the live > > medium and glue both together without any knowledge of each other. > > > > I am right here to report this? Should I write in a bug tracker? where? Cheers, David.
