> > On 03/01/2015 04:41 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:> On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at > 05:44:47PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three >>> primary partitions and a lot of empty space. >> >> In case it's relevant, I was using the expert install, wanting to make >> my own paritioning decisions. That's what I usually do when installing >> Debian. Was this a mistake? >> >> -- hendrik >>
The first time I installed the valentine preview, it was on existing partitions in a virtualbox VM. I chose a regular (non-expert)install, chose manual partitioning. When the partitioner showed me the existing partitions, I noticed that there were two partitions instead of one. There was a swap partition inside an extended partition, which I'm sure I did not create. Other than that, the installation went fine. I then booted the VM with a live CD and repartitioned the drive using gparted. Made a single partition again, then rebooted the valentine iso to see if the same thing would happen, but it did not. I could not reproduce it. I even tried a third time. Except for that first install, the partitioner did what I expected it to do - it showed me the existing partitions and allowed me to choose whether to use them or not. fsr >> >> I could not get manual partitioning to leave the existing partitions >> alone and install devuan to secondary partitions in the empty space. The >> closest I could get was a question whether I'd like it to replace the >> existing partition table with a new empty one. Of course I answered >> 'no'. I wanted it to start from the existing partition structure. >> 'yes' seemed somewhat dangerous. >> >> Well, in reality, those partitions wera a copy of files I had elsewhere >> and wanted to be able to use on the new system in a dual-boot >> configuration, so in theory I could have gone further and restored those >> partition later, and when I have time I may still do that to further test >> the installer. But I'd rather test how well int cooperates with other >> existing systems. >> >> -- hendrik >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
