On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 02:40:18PM +0100, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Depending on your goal you could create the layout and put it into kind > of a image. Fastest way would be e.g. dd if=/dev/sda of=/foo/baa > > At last as long as you are not writing, whats your goal ;) OP mentioned preseeding. Can they perform an operation such as you suggest from within a preseed configuration?