[plug] Sarge Debian installartion

[Richard Meyer]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:02 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
> Advice wanted please.
> 
> Does the Debian process offer the alternative of installation to a 
> specific drive? (hdb in my case - hda has windows and mandriva, and hdc 
> also contains windows material) - or will it overwrite the first thing 
> it comes to?
> 
> hdb is free but would require repartitioning I guess...
> 
> I'm worried about continuing with with the installation procedure 
> because I can find nothing in the docs relating to this.

Dave, since no experts have replied yet, I'll just give you my
experience for what it's worth. I installed Debian many moons ago, and,
although I hated the whole Debian experience at the time, I was able to
tell it how to partition and which partitions to use for which
mountpoints. 

I believe the installer now is much nicer, but I don't know ...

I can't believe that they've crippled the installer to the stage where
it "assumes" that it can overwrite other partitions. 
> 
> Thanks and belated good wishes to all for 2006

Ta, and same to you  ;-)
> 
> Dave Dartnall

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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>