ISO 1.5.1 and the installer

[Auke Kok]

Stefan Wold wrote:

> Hey Auke,
>
> I managed to reproduce the bug Jerry reported a few weeks ago where
> the installer never start and drop your a login screen. I took a
> closer look on the problem, and it appear that the if touch / is
> successfull the explanation you can see further down.
>
> However if you do a if touch /test for example the test fail.
>
> If I run mount on the console this is what I see:
>
> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type ext2 (ro)
> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on / type iso9660 (rw) ... ....
>
> As you can see I suspect it's the cdrom causing it because it claims
> to be mounted rw.
>
> This happend installing on a IBM Thinkpad R50p.



this is exactly what I have been suspecting - we will need to figure out
a better way (perhaps use /dev/root's mount options or just touch a new
file) to detect if we are on the iso or not. Fix must go into the next
iso's.

Auke