On Sun, 3/1/15, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

Subject: [Dng] No way to use a prepartioned disk?
To: dng@???
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

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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.

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