Andrei Popescu wrote:
I see no need to partition a drive if I'm going to have only one partition on it, so I just use the entire drive as a volume. It's really quite normal. Just "mke2fs -j /dev/hdd" and it's ready to go. Gives you a few more sectors of space and slightly less overhead.On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:11:30PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:I've installed Debian many times, but this time I'm having an issue. I've got Windows XP on /dev/hda1, and I have a pre-existing ext3 volume with data I need on /dev/hdd. But I can't figure out a way to get the installerWhat do you mean by that? hdd would designate a different *drive*. How is it partitioned?to use /dev/hdd as the installation volume. What's the best way to do this?I use manual partioning where I can choose exactly which partition to use and how (as /, /var, /home, etc.).Regards, Andrei
Can't do that with Windows, of course, because it's too stupid to understand it. Linux has no problem with it, and I've been doing it for years, but I just don't happen to know how to communicate that to the installer. Once I get over the little hump of telling the thing to use a premade volume as the root mount point instead of having to do it through its partitioner, it'll be smooth sailing.