How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Browder
I want to install Debian 5.0.5 over my Ubuntu 10.04.1 OS. I will reformat partitions /boot and / but want to keep the other partitions which are now using the ext4 file system. Will that work? I read that 4.0 (lenny) doesn't support ext4 but it's available in testing. I see that the ext4

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: I want to install Debian 5.0.5 over my Ubuntu 10.04.1 OS. I will reformat partitions /boot and / but want to keep the other partitions which are now using the ext4 file system. Will that work? I read that 4.0 (lenny) doesn't support ext4 but it's

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an existing ext4 partition to be retained? ... What other partitions? I'll assume /home, and anything else?

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an existing ext4 partition to be retained? ... What other

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... Can anyone say for sure what will happen during

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 25/08/2010 à 14:31, Tom Browder a écrit : On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... Can

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:44, Alain Baeckeroot alain.baecker...@laposte.net wrote: Le 25/08/2010 à 14:31, Tom Browder a écrit : On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Tom Browder: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:44, Alain Baeckeroot Lenny does not support ext4 for /boot (maybe / too), but it can manage ext4 for other partitions. https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#For_people_who_are_running_Debian http://wiki.debian.org/Ext4 For sure there is

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:22, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Tom Browder: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:44, Alain Baeckeroot Lenny does not support ext4 for /boot (maybe / too), but it can manage ext4 for other partitions.

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Tom Browder: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:22, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: In order to be able to at least mount existing ext4 filesystems during installation, you canalso try Kenshi Muto's d-i: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ These are regular images, just with a more recent

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:14, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Tom Browder: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:22, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: In order to be able to at least mount existing ext4 filesystems during installation, you canalso try Kenshi Muto's d-i:

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

2010-08-25 Thread gun_smoke
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:31:13AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers rod_my...@fastmail.fm wrote: That sounds good. So I shouldn't have any problems with 5.0.5 supporting existing ext4 partitions. Thanks, Rodney. I was not able to mount an ext4