On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:22:56 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-06-09 02:59 (UTC-0400): > > > Are you saying that I can partition this new drive with gparted and make > > the d-i use that? That would be the holy grail if so. > > This possibility became reality in antiquity. I never would have completed my > first Debian installation attempt if this were not the case. I can't remember > the > last Gnu/Linux installer I ran across that didn't have this capability. Unlike > David, who /usually/ partitions prior to starting up the Debian installer, I > *always* do. Only one partitioner is ever used on any of my partitionable > media. I > usually format first too, including any swap partition.
Actually, I haven't partitioned in the installer since the mid-1990s, and back then, I would have written the first partition with DOS6.22, so that it could set a disk geometry satisfactory to itself. These were dual-boot machines, sort of, in that they booted linux from DOS's config.sys using loadlin IIRC. "I always prefer to …" means that I do something as a considered choice, a preference, rather than habit, instruction, or whatever. Others might advise some other course (eg Andrew, with LVM). Perhaps it's rather British. Cheers, David.
