On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:53:13AM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> >The installer does not support unpartitioned devices, so
> >you cannot install Debian to /dev/hdd.
wrong implication: the installer inside debian cd/dvd is NOT the only
officially aknowledged way to inst
Frans Pop wrote:
On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
It just seems like quite a silly thing, that we can boot to RAID, we can
boot to LVM, we can even boot over the network, but we can't manage to
boot to one cylinder of a disk drive.
Feel free to file a wishlist bug
On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> It just seems like quite a silly thing, that we can boot to RAID, we can
> boot to LVM, we can even boot over the network, but we can't manage to
> boot to one cylinder of a disk drive.
Feel free to file a wishlist bug report against partman
Frans Pop wrote:
No need to CC me; I obviously read the lists (well, one of them anyway).
On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
Yes, but the problem is that the partition is /dev/hdd, not /dev/hdd1.
Sounds to me like a mistake was made when the filesystem was created.
No need to CC me; I obviously read the lists (well, one of them anyway).
On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> Yes, but the problem is that the partition is /dev/hdd, not /dev/hdd1.
Sounds to me like a mistake was made when the filesystem was created.
It was apparently created
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-exis
Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 19 April 2008, 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
installe
On Saturday 19 April 2008, 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 to use /dev/h
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 03:18:14PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
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 t
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 03:18:14PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> 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
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 wa
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 installe
> * From: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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 to use /dev/hdd
I do not use debian installer since many years, but I can assure you that
using debootstrap or cdebootstr
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 to use /dev/hdd as the installation volume. What's the best
way to do this
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