On 3/2/08, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I expected the "use as" can be selected as a root partition, but > > that page only display following menu: > > use as: > > > > EXT 3 > > EXT2 > > Reiser FS > > JFS > > XFS > > FAT16 > > FAT32 > > Swap area > > Physical volume for encryption > > Physical volume for LVM > > Physical volume for RAID > > do not use the partition > > > > There is no "root partition", I actuall selected it as ext3, then it > > came above error. > > > > Now, if I select mount point to "/", it also came another error. > > > > I actually don't want to do any partition change, the #5 has already > > partitioned and formated as ext3. But I could not go over that > > partition page. How can I skip partition page and just install the > > Debian directly to hda5? > > > Read this part of the install guide on using the installer and partitioning. > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.html.en#di-partition > > Even if you don't want to change the other partitions you will need to > format and set up your hda5 again and tell it to mount hda5 as / this > will set up hda5 in /etc/fstab as your / and leave all the other > partitions alone (you will have to manually add them to /etc/fstab in > you want access to them) otherwise specify a mount point for them and > select them as "do not format". > > The Debian installer is very flexible, you will get it do what you > want, it's just a matter of you finding the options in the installer.
All right, it's done. The next problem is that eth0 is not assigned IP address, it has following statement in the /etc/network/interfaces. I can see eth0 without IP address. That machine was running on FC5 before and has no problem to network connection. allow-hotplug eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp Thanks. Kind Regards, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
