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initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #201750
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 201750

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Agostino Russo (ago) wrote : Re: Cannot remount loopfiles inside of vfat

I did some preliminary tests with blockdev (which was suggested to me by Colin Watson) and added some code to mounthost (Mounthost is the init.d scripts that takes care of remounting the host directory for loopinstallations, see http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/lupin/hardy/revision/93).

I can remount a loopfiles using blockdev --setrw in a simple set-up (ext3 file inside of a vfat partition), but that does not work as well when said loopfile contains /.

For the time being I would suggest to apply the workaround in the first comment, to make it possible for vfat users to install via Wubi and hence to avoid needless tickets.