[SOLVED]Incorrect mountpoint for /home and /boot

Hello Archers,
I'm new to Arch, if you find my question is so dummy, let me know
I have manually setup the partition like this:
1. sdb1 NTFS with boot flag toggle, primary (My existing Windows XP)
2. sdb2 with boot flag toggle, primary (will be used as /boot), type 83
3. sdb5 logical (will be used as swap), type 82
4. sdb6 logical (will be used as /), type 83
5. sdb7 logical (will be used as /home), type 83
6. sdb8 logical NTFS
I have a small problem when installing Arch, it's about setting up filesystem and mountpoint.
The installer asked me to select the swap, I chose sdb5, for / I chose sdb6, and it asked me to select additional partition to be mounted under new root, I chose sdb5 with the mount point /boot, sdb7 for /home. The installer show a summary of the filesystem and mountpoint before it makes changes to the hdd, everything is correct. But when it makes changes to my hdd, it said that it make a mountpoint at /mnt/boot and /mnt/home.:rolleyes:. It should make mountpoints at /boot and /home respectively. Why does it add a prefix /mnt to my custom mountpoint?
It seems to be a bug in the installer.
Any help are appreciated.
Thanks
Tinh
Last edited by tinhtruong (2008-12-28 09:46:43)

fumbles wrote:Because you are still running Arch from the CD and not the one you just installed on your computer.
If so, the message generated by the installer is confusing, it need to be fixed to save some posts like this on the forum:D
I'm not at that computer right now, so I cannot verify this. I will verify this problem in the evening and report back.
Thanks for a quick reply.

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