On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 05:44:47PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three > primary partitions and a lot of empty space.
In case it's relevant, I was using the expert install, wanting to make my own paritioning decisions. That's what I usually do when installing Debian. Was this a mistake? -- hendrik > > I could not get manual partitioning to leave the existing partitions > alone and install devuan to secondary partitions in the empty space. The > closest I could get was a question whether I'd like it to replace the > existing partition table with a new empty one. Of course I answered > 'no'. I wanted it to start from the existing partition structure. > 'yes' seemed somewhat dangerous. > > Well, in reality, those partitions wera a copy of files I had elsewhere > and wanted to be able to use on the new system in a dual-boot > configuration, so in theory I could have gone further and restored those > partition later, and when I have time I may still do that to further test > the installer. But I'd rather test how well int cooperates with other > existing systems. > > -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
