[plug] Sarge Debian installation

David Dartnall darts at dialix.com.au
Wed Jan 11 19:02:21 WST 2006


Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:

>Quoting David Dartnall <darts at arach.net.au>:
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>>Advice wanted please.
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>>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?
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>>hdb is free but would require repartitioning I guess...
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>>I'm worried about continuing with with the installation procedure 
>>because I can find nothing in the docs relating to this.
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>>Thanks and belated good wishes to all for 2006
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>>Dave Dartnall
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>I always saw the Debian installer as being the most flexible and un-st00pid when
>it comes to these things. My memory of similar dual booting experiences (as well
>as software raid drives) and stuff when it comes to Debian is all good - I think
>you're okay to proceed with the install and just be careful at the
>partitioning/filesystem stage..
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>Tomasz
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Thanks Richrd and Tomasz - I'll give it a go!
DD



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