On Sun, 3/1/15, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: Subject: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk? To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Sunday, March 1, 2015, 11:44 AM > I tried using the valentine installer on a disk that already had three > primary partitions and a lot of empty space. > > 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
-------------------------------------------- fsmithred experienced something similar a while back. http://refracta.freeforums.org/post4651.html#p4651 That's when I decided to wait for a live iso to play with rather than installing on metal. golinux _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
