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being careful of windows / automated install (and reinstall) without destroying windows



heya guys,

what's the best people to speak to (partman udeb) about the possibility
of doing a udeb that runs gnu parted (yeessss, the one considered to be
non-freeee with ntfsresiiiize even though it's absolutely fiiine :) ) 
to resize an ntfs partition, if needed, and, most importantly, to _not_
wipe out the windows partition (or any other OS in fact) under
debconf-database-specified control?

basically i want to be able to give people a CD that does an unattended
debian install _without_ wiping out their windows system.

but if it goes wrong (i need to test it), being able to wipe the install
clean _without_ wiping out their windows system.

i had a bitch of a time using the gparted live cd to do this: it's _got_
to be automatable.

thoughts anyone?

l.

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