Hi Dan There's a distro called Parted Magic which is based on Slack. The partitioning tool used by Parted Magic is gparted
Two questions: (1) Can I use gparted to format any disk space to vfat? (2) Why has it to be vfat and not some other filesystem such as amigo or macOS? Regards. Alan P.S.: Thanks for your recommendation of Hetzog's guide. On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 7:48:50 PM GMT+8, Andrew Cater <amaca...@gmail.com> wrote: You _can_ use guided partitioning as a guide. Use Windows to reduce the amount of space it takes on the disk. Use Windows tools to format the second half of the disk, or whatever to vfat. Boot Debian: use Debian to delete the vfat partition and create blank space: then use "use largest blank space" and guided partition. Debian will recognise there's another OS there and will insert the appropriate booting magic into a GPT formatted disk with UEFI. I have (at least) one laptop here with exactly that configuration. If you're not sure, can I recommend Raphael Hertzog's Debian handbook - which has just been released for Debian 10. See planet.debian.org recently. Download and read it in slower time. On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:35 AM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: >> Hello Dan, >> >> You wrote: / will have everything in it except your personal data; /var, >> /srv, and so forth all fall under it. >> >> Sorry for the noob question but what does /home contain? > > That's where each user's personal data is stored, and if you > open a terminal, the default first location: > /home/gajuph4pre, /home/dsr, etc. > > > -dsr- > >
