On Saturday 19 April 2008 21:18:14 John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:11:30PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > >> I've installed Debian many times, but this time I'm having an issue. > >> I've got Windows XP on /dev/hda1, and I have a pre-existing ext3 volume > >> with data I need on /dev/hdd. But I can't figure out a way to get the > >> installer > > > > What do you mean by that? hdd would designate a different *drive*. How > > is it partitioned? > > > >> to use /dev/hdd as the installation volume. What's the best way to do > >> this? > > > > I use manual partioning where I can choose exactly which partition to > > use and how (as /, /var, /home, etc.). > > > > Regards, > > Andrei > > I see no need to partition a drive if I'm going to have only one > partition on it, so I just use the entire drive as a volume. It's really > quite normal. Just "mke2fs -j /dev/hdd" and it's ready to go. Gives you > a few more sectors of space and slightly less overhead. > > Can't do that with Windows, of course, because it's too stupid to > understand it. Linux has no problem with it, and I've been doing it for > years, but I just don't happen to know how to communicate that to the > installer. Once I get over the little hump of telling the thing to use a > premade volume as the root mount point instead of having to do it > through its partitioner, it'll be smooth sailing.
Well,IMHO you are out of the possibilies of the installer. Linux need a clean partition to install. If you want to keep data , first use gparted-live, create a small partion to save you data ( I would save it somewhere else before!!!) at install time, choose manual, mount your saved partition, here you are. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
