Aleksander Adamowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> The installer uses the /mnt/tmp dir, which is the /tmp dir of the > working system. > > On the working system, /tmp was not an ordinary dir, but a > symlink to /home/temp/tmp - because some long time ago I had run > out of space on the / filesystem where /tmp was located. I've > symlinked a tmp dir prepared on the /home partition, where I had > plenty of space. The system worked fine. > However, in an environment where the original /home filesystem is > now /mnt/home, the symlink points at void space. There's no > /home/temp/tmp when Mdk 9.0 installer is running, there's > /mnt/home/temp/tmp. Why? Because you use an absolute symlink! **Never** use absolute symlinks, it's baaaaad. Use relative symlinks. Francois -> a check in the upgrade should be put at the beginning to test if /mnt/tmp is available, and issue an error if not. Aleksander would probably have guessed the origin of the problem and fix it himself. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
