On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 07:25:23PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
Personally, I always do partitioning and initial mkfs operations using whatever live-CD distribution I most have confidence in (currently Siduction), and then separately let the distro installer use the filesystems and disc layout thus created. But horses for courses.
The debian installer (and presumably ubuntu and others) let you switch to another console tty with Alt-F2, Alt-F3 etc to get a root shell. You can manually create the partitions you want, then switch back to tty1 to install on the partitions you just created. IIRC, on debian tty1 is the installer menu, tty2 & tty3 are for shells, and tty4 is a log tail of info and error messages etc printed by the installer. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>