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Hello, I have a test PC with an 80GB disk in it. The current partitioning is: primary partition 1: NetBSD (10GB) 2: OpenSUSE (10GB) 3) swap (1GB) extended partition 4) 50GB logical partition 5) [Debian] (10GB) I am trying to install Debian 4.0r1 into the logical partition /dev/hda5. However, the installer seems to always repartition the disk such that the extended partition is the same size as hda5 (i.e. 10GB). This then means that I cannot add any further logical partitions. I have tried skipping the disk partitioning section by manually (re-)partitioning the extended/logical partitions, and formatting hde5. However, there seems to be no way around having the installer write the changes to the disk, and hence repartition it again. Does anyone know a way around this? I already have the disk partitioned, I just want to tell the installer to use hda5 (as root), reformat it if it wants to, but to leave everything else alone. Thanks, John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html