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> On 03/01/2015 04:41 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> -- hendrik
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The first time I installed the valentine preview, it was on existing
partitions in a virtualbox VM. I chose a regular (non-expert)install,
chose manual partitioning.

When the partitioner showed me the existing partitions, I noticed that
there were two partitions instead of one. There was a swap partition
inside an extended partition, which I'm sure I did not create. Other than
that, the installation went fine.

I then booted the VM with a live CD and repartitioned the drive using
gparted. Made a single partition again, then rebooted the valentine iso to
see if the same thing would happen, but it did not. I could not reproduce
it. I even tried a third time.

Except for that first install, the partitioner did what I expected it to
do - it showed me the existing partitions and allowed me to choose whether
to use them or not.

fsr

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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> -- hendrik
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