On Mar 2, 2015 10:41 AM, "Richard" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 2015 6:26 PM, "fsmithred" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 > > Installing Valentine on HD on AA1: > 1. First three attempts failed. 1st with the GUI and then with the curses version. > Each picked up and connected to wifi. > 2. All stopped at 33% of formatting the chosen partition. I waited at least 15 minutes for each. > 3. Formatted the desired partition with gparted then ran the curses installer without doing any partitioning. Valentine is happily installing at the moment. > 4. I'll give it a bit more use this time. Previously just wanted to see the shape of things to come.
Note: Installed to MBR of HD. Only needs reinstall grub2 to return to previous setup.
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