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.
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