On Mar 2, 2015 10:41 AM, "Richard" <richard.holt@???> wrote:
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> On Mar 1, 2015 6:26 PM, "fsmithred" <fsmithred@???> wrote:
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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.
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > >>
> > >> 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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> Installing Valentine on HD on AA1:
> 1. First three attempts failed. 1st with the GUI and then with the curses
version.
> Each picked up and connected to wifi.
> 2. All stopped at 33% of formatting the chosen partition. I waited at
least 15 minutes for each.
> 3. Formatted the desired partition with gparted then ran the curses
installer without doing any partitioning. Valentine is happily installing
at the moment.
> 4. I'll give it a bit more use this time. Previously just wanted to see
the shape of things to come.

Note: Installed to MBR of HD. Only needs reinstall grub2 to return to
previous setup.