No need to CC me; I obviously read the lists (well, one of them anyway). On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > Yes, but the problem is that the partition is /dev/hdd, not /dev/hdd1. Sounds to me like a mistake was made when the filesystem was created. It was apparently created by running 'mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdd' instead of 'mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdd1', which probably means that the partition table information was destroyed. It also means, if you want to keep the existing data on /dev/hdd, that you cannot "repartition" that device using partman, nor install Debian to that drive. You'll have to fix the error first by saving your data somewhere, create a proper partition table and then copy the data back to a partition. Maybe it is possible to do all this while keeping the data on hdd, but I would not bet on it and I certainly don't know how. > The partitioner is incapable of recognizing /dev/hdd as an ext3 volume, > and the install base system refuses to proceed without the partitioner > giving the go-ahead. That is correct. The installer does not support unpartitioned devices, so you cannot install Debian to /dev/hdd. Installing Debian to it in the current situation would destroy the existing data and, as you said you wanted to keep the data, that seems like a bad move. Cheers, FJP
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