Bug#342469: Package: installation-reports

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 20:25, Dayle Majors wrote:
> The install process recognizes the existing partitions but does not
> recognize which one should be made the boot partition or which one
> should be made the user data partition.  The questions asked provide no
> obvious way of giving the information to the program.  The default
> wants to completely reformat hdb eliminating the fat32 extent. That is
> not desireable!  the existing partitions have about 128 mb in what
> should be the boot partition, a swap partition, a large user partition
> (ext3), and the small fat32 partition. The swap partition is
> recognized.

This is documented to some extend in the installation guide and in the 
help page available from partman's main menu.

What you need to do is:
- select "manual partitioning"
- select the partition you want to use as /
  - select the filesystem type you want to use for it
  - select to reformat the partition
  - select the mountpoint
- repeat that process for the /boot partition if you want that separate

You can also choose to mount other partitions (e.g. /srv, /opt, /home) 
while keeping their existing data; the only requirement being that you 
select their current file system type.
You can of course also do this after the installation.

Cheers,
FJP