Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:22, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> Tom Browder:
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:44, Alain Baeckeroot
>>
>>> Lenny does not support ext4 for /boot (maybe / too), but
>>> it can manage ext4 for other partitions.
>>> https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#For_people_who_are_running_Debian
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/Ext4
>>>
>>> For sure there is a backported kernel with ext4 support, it works flawlessly for me.
>>> http://backports.org/
>>> http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/kernel/linux-image-2.6-686
>>
>> Good info, Alain, thanks!
>
> In order to be able to at least mount existing ext4 filesystems during
> installation, you canalso try Kenshi Muto's d-i:
> http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
>
> These are regular images, just with a more recent kernel. And Kenshi is
> a DD, in case you care.
Hm, thanks, but using those sounds like an installation using advanced
procedures I'm not experienced with.
Are we talking about a place in the installation where it might ask if
you have other images or such on another medium (such as another CD or
DVD)?
I assume that is detailed in the inst docs, but I've never done it before.
Thanks, Jochen.
-Tom
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