Bug#244619: marked as done (There is a need for a method to prepare partitions manually. It is rather presumptious for d-i to think that Debian will only be installed on disk and d-i knows how to partition disks for every system. Probably we need a fake package providing partitions-mounted, fstab-created, etc. This would allow to use the installer also on s390)

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Package: partman
Severity: wishlist

There needs to be a way to skip partitioning and manually mount a root fs
without d-i insisting that a disk has to be partitioned.  It is rather
presumptious for d-i to think that 1) Debian will only be installed to a
hard disk and 2) d-i knows how to partition disks for every system.
Since the mount-to /target trick no longer works with Sarge, there needs
to be a method provided that a user can specify a block device to mount
root and swap.

Kevin "Starfox" Arima

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Partman allows mounting of an existing filesystem without partitioning
or formatting it.

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