To answer my own question, you can 'shell' out of the installer, run fdisk (which only has ext2 listed, however, not ext3), but finding the drive pathname isn't so easy fdisk /dev/hda --doesn't work, fdisk /dev/discs/disc0/disc After creating a useful BSD disklabel and partition scheme, the d-i doesn't allow you do choose mount points outside of partman! It claims there's no root filesystem and puts you back into parman which can't see the partitions to select mount points for them!? > -----Original Message----- > From: Cernese, Dan [mailto:Dan.Cernese@hp.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:48 AM > To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning > > I'm in the middle of dealing with this same issue, I cannot > figure out how to partition my IDE drive in a DS20L (that has > no floppy; only a CD and an IDE drive). Using SRM... > > I started with sarge/testing's netboot installer (both minimal > and base-system CD images), but learned the hard way it couldn't > partition the disk. > > I used the woody installer and it can autorun fdisk, I create > the partition table and reboot with the newest installer and > it (partman?) can't deal with the BSD partition table, there > doesn't even appear to be a way to skip it. > > What to do to get a sarge install? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Cameron Patrick [mailto:cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 3:24 AM > > To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning > > > > Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > > > > | I thought Debian's installer used cfdisk. For more info in > > partitioning > > | with fdisk: > > | > > | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html > > > > If by "Debian's installer" you mean "boot floppies on i386" then > > that's true. It's never been used on alpha -- boot-floppies used > > straight fdisk, and debian-installer uses partman (as it > does on most > > other architectures). > > > > (boot-floppies is the name of the installer used in woody > and previous > > distributions. debian-installer is the new installer that will be > > used in sarge.) > > > > Cameron. > > >
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