Thanx for the reply, but unfortunately... What you mention is exactly what I did. This gave me a new screen which had only *one* option: whipe my whole drive first before you partition manually.
Sorry, I cannot describe the *exact* dialogs, I am doing this from memory. But trust me, I was so amazed by this one that I walked through *all* options several times over and over again. It is *not* there. It just doesn't show any free space / partitions it can install onto or where you can create new partitions... It just shows "the drive" as a whole and the only suggestion is to completely whipe it first. Also, I didn't *want* to create new partitions, which the program assumed. I wanted to *RE-USE* existing ones... When I removed (using fdisk in seperate shell) the three earlier created Linux partitions which I wanted to install on, and went back to the partitioning menu. Now it showed the 17 GB or so as *free* and it was now happy to allow me to manually partition them. Sorry for the lengthy explanation. Maybe I am wrong and maybe I missed something. But that would suprise me, as I really checked and double checked and double checked and and :). Regards, Pim > Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: >> Downloaded the new Debian Installer, latest version (110 MB CD Image) >> and >> booted it. It went like a CHARM. Only thing I had some difficulties with >> was the partitioning of the disk. D-I guys, please have a look at the >> dialogues here, because if you already have all space on your drive used >> by partitions (like I had, I just want the D-I to re-format the Gentoo >> partitions) it gives you NO CLUE at all. It continues to scream that it >> wants to whipe your whole drive. NOT NICE. > > I'm sorry, what is so hard about choosing the other menu item, that is > entitled "manually edit partition table"? > > -- > see shy jo > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
