On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 20:29:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2015 18:38:06 Brian wrote: > > > > Your turn now for some gauntlet picking up and a keystroke by > > keystroke account. :) > > > > There is no significant space available on the disk to install to. The > > only way to get an OS on it is to use the existing partition(s). > > Scuse me?
Certainly. > Every other partitioning tool on the planet, from fdisk on is capable of > creating a blank partition table in memory, letting you add new > partitions to it etc etc. And when you are done, they will blindly write > this newly composed table to the disk, no questions asked. > > And yet you _all_ are telling me this tool is incapable of doing that? I said nothing of the sort. All my responses have been in the context of using d-i. That goes for others too. > What is the difference between deleting all existing partitions and > creating new ones in the now blank table? and just making a new table > and writing it. There should be no difference because in each case it is > overwriting what was originally there. FWIW I did try that once, with > exactly the same results. None, I think. But it didn't work for you; where you placed the blame then I've forgotten. > I rest my case. > > In any event were are doing nothing but argueing until the drives that > will give me some toys to play with get here late next week. I'll have lost the will to live by then. Reciprocation rather than a film show would have speeded things up. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/04042015165402.76573dccc...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
