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
>
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