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Re: Installation with recipe / protection of first partition



> > I want to protect the first partition (HP-Tools) of my system from all
> > manipulations, but to do an automatically installation of the rest of my
> > Etch system with (preseed / recipe). The parameter keep might help but I
> > do not know how to configure the details, i.e. the unknown size of the
> > partition.
> 
> What you want is not possible, except by first (manually) deleting all 
> existing partitions (except the HP-Tools partition) and then using guided 
> partitioning with the "use largest free space" option.
> With all other guided partitioning methods your existing partition table 
> will be wiped and all existing partitions will be lost.

With the current version of debian-installer

Patches are welcome


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