On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > In the partitioning scheme, sda is HD ST1000DX002-2DV1. It has a primary > > partition that is bootable and the mount point /. > You probably want to set this partition to unused (or whatever it's called, it's a looong time since I last did this) so that it doesn't appear in the mount point table (eventually in fstab of the new install). I think what you are telling it is that you want sda1 to mounted as / IN THIS INSTALLATION and that then clashes with your new / (on sdc) that you're trying to install to.
In "typical usage:" option when configuring the root partition, there is no option that would disable it. In any case, I don't want to disable it, but to be able to boot any disk and use its grub menu to boot it or any other disk. I've always been able to do that. It occurs to me that I could simply disconnect the SATA cable from my sda and then partition sdc and after installation reconnect sda and run update-grub on the disks. But I hesitate to do it because then the sda/sdc identity of the disk would change and I might end up unable to boot either disk. Another approach might be to boot sda run fdisk on sdc and then do an installation on sdc without partitioning it. Incidentally, on sdb I have have installed an old Debian (Etch?). When I try to partition sdc it does not want to use its root partition. only the root partition of sda. I suspect something has changed between Jessie and Ascii. The partitioner in devuan install I suppose is parted, but not sure. Haines _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng