Sorry Nick - forgot to hit reply-all etc :( -----Original Message----- From: Lance Blackler Sent: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:43:27 +1300 (NZDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: Debian and MEPIS Linux - YAIR (Yet Another Installation Report)
I've always done it afterwards by editing the fstab and moving the contents of the folder as a tar ball to the new partition that I temporarily mount in its default location eg /mnt/had3 or whatever. Mind you I never seem to be succesfull with the home directory, always seem to end up with a mess so stopped bothering - just mount a data partion in my home directory, but the others have never been a problem. So I am quite happy that the installer now allows for a home partition - not worried about the rest. Lance B -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout Sent: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:30:30 +1300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian and MEPIS Linux - YAIR (Yet Another Installation Report) I am wondering if this sort of problem could be got round (in mepis and in knoppix perhaps) by doing your partitioning manually, then skipping the partitioning part of the installer program. you would need to know where to mount your partitions, eg during an install your / is often somewhere weird like /mnt/install/ , so you would need to mount usr at /mnt/install/usr . depends a bit on how flexible the installer is i guess! On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:10:14 +1300 Andrew Errington wrote: > The first thing I noticed was that whilst you could specify root swap and > home partitions you couldn't split the install any further, this was > annoying after careful discussion and consideration of how to partition the > disk for Debian 3.0 -- Nick Rout
