Yes, it would do that. The problem is that un-mounting / leaves it mounted read-only, not unmounted. You can't unmount root. If it remounts it at all, it doesn't do it correctly, and re-partitioning the disk that root is running on is problematical, to say the least. On the PC installation floppy root would be a RAM disk at this point, and this problem would never come up. I wonder if your boot parameters are wrong, or if it is a 68k-specific issue.
Thanks Bruce From: Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I found a bug in the installation procedure on my Amiga, but the same > will probably happen on all systems. > > When I try to partition the drive my root.bin is on during installation, > it pops up a requester asking to unmount / before starting fdisk on it. > After quitting fdisk it remounts /, but the installation routines > complain about / being read-only and nothing works anymore. > > To reproduce this behavior on another system you need a spare partition > at least the size of the root.bin (e.g. the swap partition). Dump the > root.bin onto it and boot with it as root. Select the keyboard and then > fdisk it (be carefull not to change anything that might erase youre > data). Just quiting it again should do the trick. > Before fdisk is started the installation routine will complain about the > root mounted from that drive and unmount it. After fdisk it will remount > it and you have the above bug. > > Can somebody second this on another system or is it just my Amiga? > > > May the Source be with you. > Mrvn. > -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .