Bug#456623: debian-installer: Please offer the option of using an unpartitioned disk as an FS
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
When installing a virtual machine, I'd really like to use the entire
unpartitioned virtual disk as a filesystem, rather than partitioning
it. Doing so then makes the virtual disk contain a filesystem image
directly, which I can more easily mount from the host OS. However,
debian-installer does not let me create a filesystem directly on a
disk device; choosing a disk device only offers me the option of
partitioning it.
Similarly, I might want to use disks directly when doing RAID and/or
LVM, rather than creating and using partitions.
I could live with needing to use expert mode to do this, though I'd
prefer to have the option more readily available.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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