On Wednesday 07 December 2005 20:25, Dayle Majors wrote: > The install process recognizes the existing partitions but does not > recognize which one should be made the boot partition or which one > should be made the user data partition. The questions asked provide no > obvious way of giving the information to the program. The default > wants to completely reformat hdb eliminating the fat32 extent. That is > not desireable! the existing partitions have about 128 mb in what > should be the boot partition, a swap partition, a large user partition > (ext3), and the small fat32 partition. The swap partition is > recognized.
This is documented to some extend in the installation guide and in the help page available from partman's main menu. What you need to do is: - select "manual partitioning" - select the partition you want to use as / - select the filesystem type you want to use for it - select to reformat the partition - select the mountpoint - repeat that process for the /boot partition if you want that separate You can also choose to mount other partitions (e.g. /srv, /opt, /home) while keeping their existing data; the only requirement being that you select their current file system type. You can of course also do this after the installation. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
