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Hello,
I have a test PC with an 80GB disk in it. The current partitioning is:
primary partition 1: NetBSD (10GB)
2: OpenSUSE (10GB)
3) swap (1GB)
extended partition 4) 50GB
logical partition 5) [Debian] (10GB)
I am trying to install Debian 4.0r1 into the logical
partition /dev/hda5. However, the installer seems to always repartition
the disk such that the extended partition is the same size as hda5 (i.e.
10GB). This then means that I cannot add any further logical partitions.
I have tried skipping the disk partitioning section by manually
(re-)partitioning the extended/logical partitions, and formatting hde5.
However, there seems to be no way around having the installer write the
changes to the disk, and hence repartition it again.
Does anyone know a way around this? I already have the disk partitioned,
I just want to tell the installer to use hda5 (as root), reformat it if
it wants to, but to leave everything else alone.
Thanks,
John.
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