Bug#277154: parted does not accept partial partitionning and formatting of a hard disk

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

reassign 277154 partman
tags 277154 moreinfo
thanks

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:28:03PM +0200, Alain Leroux wrote:
> Package: debian installer
> Version:
> In : Sarge
> The Sarge partionning tool does not seem to accept partial partitionning 
> and formatting of my hard disk.
> I would like to keep some of the partitions which contain
> my work. Thus the  Sarge distribution is quite unusable for me.

Could you give more information about what you tried, please? The
partitioning tool we use certainly allows you to say "keep and use the
data on this partition", or to say nothing about a partition at all, in
which case the contents of the partition will be preserved.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]