On 05.03.15 08:45, Keith BAINBRIDGE wrote:
Just had this thought. Fire up gparted in ubuntu while still in trial mode and create whtever partitions you need. Then proceed with intallation
That is a good idea that I'll have to remember. (I'm booting 10.04 in between, though, to google up on parted, read mail, and bone up a bit on partition tables, since the msdos-ism of logical partitions within primary partitions on my old drives does seem to be an unnecessary historical artifact.) Am packing now to go bush for ten days from this afternoon, so execution of the good suggestions will be delayed a bit. I'll have a play with parted, even if I hop over to Debian. Any mess I make can be blown away by the Debian install, in the worst case, I figure. Thanks. Erik -- A computer is like an air conditioner, it doesn't work as well when you open Windows.