Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video
On 02/03/2008, hce <webmail.hce@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I expected the "use as" can be selected as a root partition, but
> that page only display following menu:
> use as:
>
> EXT 3
> EXT2
> Reiser FS
> JFS
> XFS
> FAT16
> FAT32
> Swap area
> Physical volume for encryption
> Physical volume for LVM
> Physical volume for RAID
> do not use the partition
>
> There is no "root partition", I actuall selected it as ext3, then it
> came above error.
>
> Now, if I select mount point to "/", it also came another error.
>
> I actually don't want to do any partition change, the #5 has already
> partitioned and formated as ext3. But I could not go over that
> partition page. How can I skip partition page and just install the
> Debian directly to hda5?
Read this part of the install guide on using the installer and partitioning.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.html.en#di-partition
Even if you don't want to change the other partitions you will need to
format and set up your hda5 again and tell it to mount hda5 as / this
will set up hda5 in /etc/fstab as your / and leave all the other
partitions alone (you will have to manually add them to /etc/fstab in
you want access to them) otherwise specify a mount point for them and
select them as "do not format".
The Debian installer is very flexible, you will get it do what you
want, it's just a matter of you finding the options in the installer.
Adrian
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