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Title: The installation process formats and erases all attached hard drives
Post by: Tolder on January 02, 2008, 10:21:54 PM

Can't find any deeper logic to this method      :shock:

Any way to partition harddisks manually during installation ?   


regards

Title: Re: The installation process formats and erases all attached hard drives
Post by: Stefano on January 02, 2008, 10:33:58 PM

hi

SME is a server class linux distribution and is meant to be the only O.S. installed.

please, read the manual and... no, there's no way to change this behaviour.. it's a feature.

now, please, explain your problem ;-)

ciao
Stefano

Title: Re: The installation process formats and erases all attached hard drives
Post by: David Harper on January 09, 2008, 04:27:24 AM

If you just want to have a play you can use the SME Server virtual machine (http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/944) with the free VMWare Player.

Title: Re: The installation process formats and erases all attached hard drives
Post by: raem on January 09, 2008, 07:13:55 AM

Tolder

You could install the sme OS with only one disk connected, then add more disks later and format them as required.
See
http://wiki.contribs.org/AddExtraHardDisk
and search for many related forums posts.
Read the FAQ also particularly
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Hard_Drives.2C_RAID.27s.2C_USB_Hard_Drives