Re: Installing testing on a premade volume
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:53:13AM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> >The installer does not support unpartitioned devices, so
> >you cannot install Debian to /dev/hdd.
wrong implication: the installer inside debian cd/dvd is NOT the only
officially aknowledged way to install debian. See my previous answer.
> It just seems like quite a silly thing, that we can boot to RAID, we can
> boot to LVM, we can even boot over the network, but we can't manage to
> boot to one cylinder of a disk drive.
debian contains boot loaders which can boot an installation on /dev/hdd
(lilo for sure, but possibly others)
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