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On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 12:39 +0000, John Horne wrote: > 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. > It seems that this is what the installer is supposed to do! http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276482 I have to agree with the original poster of the above bug report, that this repartitioning scheme is "unusual" to say the least, and I have not met one like it anywhere. Secondly, if I was a "semi-knowledgeable" user who had provided the partitions already, I find it extremely poor of Debian not to provide an option to say "use these partitions". Expecting a user to run parted after the install, and then re-expand an extended partition, is not only a possible source of losing the user their data, but probably not something that your average user would want to do! As my first foray into looking at Debian I have to say that this has been quite an eye opener, and not a pleasant one. Many thanks for the replies and suggestions. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html