Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, this
> after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about
> 4k/sector disks.  That is gdisk. which found the gparted setup and fixed
> it, all I had to do was write it to the disk., gparted, an old version is
> not capable of aligning things correctly.
>
> So the disk is all partitioned and formatted but empty.
>
> Now I find I cannot bypass the disk partitioner in the installer, nor can
> I force it to use these partitions on the hilited drive   This is using
> the installer in "expert" mode.
>
>    It will not let me change the "do not use" when I hilite a partition and
> hit enter.  It doesn't even acknowledge the mount points "/boot" and "/"
> already set.
>
> This is less than a desirable thing.
>
> How can I both bypass the broken partitioner, AND force it to use the
> partitions it finds on the hilited drive?
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
The installer takes you into the screen to select partitions. All you 
have to do is tell it which partitions to use for what. It will default 
to formatting them, I believe, but you can tell it not to format. It's 
not that user-unfriendly.

GPT partition tables include a legacy partition table so it works with 
older software.

Sorry I've got no screen prints to show you, but if you can figure out 
how to switch the partition from "do not use" to ext4 or whatever file 
system you prefer, the rest should be easy.

None of this is rocket science.