Bug#671879: installation-reports: Debian installer moves beginning of existing extended partition for no reason

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, This was a normal install to hard drive, using text mode installer, and choosing "Manual" for partitioning method. The partition table already existed, and was not intended to be changed during install. Original partition t

Bug#623735: installation-reports: Installer MOVES extended partition when using manual partitioning method

Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i This is a Debian 6 (squeeze) installation using the 6.0.1a i386 net install CD. After selecting manual partitioning, existing primary partition /dev/sda1 was chosen as the root partition, and an existing logical partition /dev/sda5 was s

Bug#254035: installation-reports: Partitioning - need option toskip it and just choose existing partitions

Joey Hess wrote: > > Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > With the new installer, I can't find a way to do the following (as an > > example): > > > > 1) Leave my partition table(s) completely alone - don't touch them > > 2) Format /dev/hda3 and use it as root parti

Bug#254035: installation-reports: Partitioning - need option to skip it and just choose existing partitions

Package: installation-reports Severity: important -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C This is based on Test Candidate 1 for the i386 Sarge installer