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Author: Richard
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CC: dng@lists.dyne.org
Subject: Re: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?
@Hendrik,
I installed Valentine on an existing partition of a 150 GiB HD on an Acer
Aspire One. As I remember the terminology of the installer is a bit vague
on the subject. I must have changed the FS to ext4 since that is what it
reports via lsblk.

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> 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
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