Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

[Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers <rod_myers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers <rod_myers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>> On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
>> ...
>>>> Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an
>>>> existing ext4 partition to be retained?

> When installing, and the "experts" will correct me if I'm wring   ;-)  ,
> use the expert system when doing the drive formatting. In there, you can
> mark each partition as keep, ignore, format, etc. Also in there, you can
> assign each partition a mount point as well.

That sounds good.  So I shouldn't have any problems with 5.0.5
supporting existing ext4 partitions.

Thanks, Rodney.

-Tom