Subject: Re: RFE: use current disklabel for fresh install
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 11/02/2002 19:41:04
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:03:36AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> sysinst doesn't appear to let you say "use the current disklabel" when
> you are installing ?  If I choose "upgrade" instead, it'll fsck, but
> what I really wanted was to keep the partition table (and mount points :)
> but nuke all the contents.
> 
> This would be a nice thing to have if it were possible.

I think it's there. It's the "use existing" option somewhere in the install
process. 
A but makes it start with only c and d on i386 for 1.6, but a fix has been
pulled up.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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