On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:34:32AM -0700, philagui wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to do a partman recipe that makes:
> a / partition of 1 Gb
> a swap partition of 2 times the system ram
> a /home partition that is the rest of the hdd
>
> I would like to do the following algorithm:
> IF the /home partition has already been created before
> Don't format it
> ELSE
> Create it
> Format it
>
> I tried using the method{ keep } option for partman recipes but it gives me
> an error if the partition has not already been created before (if the hard
> drive only has unformatted space for example).
>
> Any idea how to do that ?
Implement in debian-installer program code that can do
IF the /home partition has already been created before
use recipe "Don't format it"
ELSE
use recipe "Create it, Format it"
> Thanks a lot for your help.
Yes, I do hope that telling
"it can't be done in one single recipe"
did help and that my assumption that we are talking about 'd-i'
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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