Re: install/56384: Exiting and restarting sysinst during installation leaves /targetroot unmounted

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/56384; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/56384: Exiting and restarting sysinst during
 installation leaves /targetroot unmounted
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 12:56:28 +0200

 On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 12:50:03PM +0200, Harold Gutch wrote:
 > I guess at the least there could be some kind of warning ("/ is
 > readonly and you don't have anything mounted at /targetroot,
 > $OPERATIONS will fail"), perhaps also suggesting to mount the
 > installed system at /targetroot if that's what the user wants to do.
 
 Yes, but in many cases / will not be read-only (e.g. a ramdisk).
 But checking for read-only will avoid the immediate failure and is
 a usefull thing to do independantly of a more general solution.
 
 Martin