Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 11:26:55PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 05:07:10PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Interesting. I've used the Debian installer before, I think in the > > time of wheezy, and it worked with existing partitions. > > So does the one in jessie. > > I

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-02 Thread Richard
On Mar 2, 2015 10:41 AM, "Richard" wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 2015 6:26 PM, "fsmithred" wrote: > > > > > > > > On 03/01/2015 04:41 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:> On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 05:44:47PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >>> I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three > >

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-02 Thread Richard
On Mar 1, 2015 6:26 PM, "fsmithred" wrote: > > > > > On 03/01/2015 04:41 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:> On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 05:44:47PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >>> I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three > >>> primary partitions and a lot of empty space. > >> > >>

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread fsmithred
> > On 03/01/2015 04:41 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:> On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at > 05:44:47PM +, 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 instal

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread Richard
On Mar 1, 2015 5:58 PM, "Jaromil" wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Mar 2015, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Interesting. I've used the Debian installer before, I think in the > > time of wheezy, and it worked with existing partitions. Could sticking > > systemd into it have broken their partitioning? Did they r

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread Jaromil
On Sun, 01 Mar 2015, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Interesting. I've used the Debian installer before, I think in the > time of wheezy, and it worked with existing partitions. Could sticking > systemd into it have broken their partitioning? Did they really put > systemd into the installer?? systemd

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 05:07:10PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Interesting. I've used the Debian installer before, I think in the > time of wheezy, and it worked with existing partitions. So does the one in jessie. I guess you did something wrong. As long as one partition is marked for mounti

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 10:44:20PM +0100, Jaromil wrote: > > dear Hendrik, > > On Sun, 01 Mar 2015, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three > > primary partitions and a lot of empty space. > > > > I could not get manual partitioning to l

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread Go Linux
On Sun, 3/1/15, Hendrik Boom wrote: Subject: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk? To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Sunday, March 1, 2015, 11:44 AM > I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three > primary partitions and a lot of empty space. > > I c

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread Jaromil
dear Hendrik, On Sun, 01 Mar 2015, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three > primary partitions and a lot of empty space. > > I could not get manual partitioning to leave the existing partitions > alone and install devuan to secondary parti

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread Richard
@Hendrik, I installed Valentine on an existing partition of a 150 GiB HD on an Acer Aspire One. As I remember the terminology of the installer is a bit vague on the subject. I must have changed the FS to ext4 since that is what it reports via lsblk. On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Hendrik Boom wr

Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 05:44:47PM +, 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

[Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?

2015-03-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three primary partitions and a lot of empty space. 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 w