On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 04:49:59PM +0000, g4sra wrote:
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> On Sunday, March 23rd, 2025 at 00:45, Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@???> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
>
> > g4sra g4sra@??? writes:
> >
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> > > I am looking for a way to fool the Devuan Installer, say after booting
> > > a Daedalus netinstall ISO image.
> > >
>
> > > The target Disk is already partitioned and formatted ready for installation.
> > > I need some way of injecting the filesystem type and mount points into
> > > the Installer without re-partitioning.
> > >
>
> > > Any suggestions gratefully received...
> >
>
> >
>
> > When you're asked how to partition your disk(s), select the manual
> > option, not any of the guided options. You should see a partition table
> > that matches whatever the disk already had. From there you can select
> > the individual partitions (use cursor keys to navigate, enter to select)
> > to configure filesystem types, mount points and, depending on the
> > filesystem type, a few more settings.
> >
>
> > Hope this helps,
>
> I wish it did :(
>
> The partitioning and formatting options known by the installer do not support my requirements and therefore cannot be made to match.
> This is the reason for preparing the storage outside of the installer.
>
> "some way of injecting the filesystem type and mount points into the Installer without re-partitioning"
>
> re-worded
>
> "some way of bypassing partitioning and injecting the filesystem type and mount points ready for use by the base installation step"

In general there would be some debconf setting to signal that
partitioning is done but I don;t know which. And then you will need to
mount /target (with all submounts) by hand instead of performing the
partitioning step.

Perhaps you could describe your (unusual?) formatting and setup in
detail? (Clearly partman should be improved to cater for that)

Ralph.

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