[dundee] Skipping Partman

[gordon dunlop]

2009/3/20 Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk>

> okay, having found the debian installer, whist very flexiable , I can't get
> it to do what I want....... so I decided just to partition and format using
> a script.
>
> My script works!!! at the end of it, I end up with all my lovery partions
> and weird configuration....
>
> /target mounted, and ready to install.....
>
> but no!!!!!
>
> partman still runs, unmount my file system. Remouting them with partman is
> fine, but there goes my 'automatic' installation.....
>
> is the anyway to skip partman?
>
> I always use parted magic live cd to do all partition setting up prior to
installing any operating system, parted magic has also got hard disk testing
tools, g4l and a host of other things. It saves grief if any installer is a
bit buggy (some are more buggier than others) and prevents your partition
system getting mucked up. Installing Debian Lenny was a breeze because I had
prepared my partitions prior to installation.

Gordon


> Cheers,
> Lee
>
> --- On *Fri, 20/3/09, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>* wrote:
>
> From: Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Seeding...
> To: toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk, "Tayside Linux User Group" <
> dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Friday, 20 March, 2009, 11:30 AM
>
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