Bringing back "use free space" autopartitioning [was: Re: Three general newbie questions]

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

On 2004-09-20 17:29 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:15:00PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > The most complicated part is currently the partitioning, we do not
> > yet have a really good interface for this. If you want Warty to use a
> > whole hard disk, then partitioning can be done automatically. Debian
> > also offers an option to use the free space, however, for some reason
> > it was removed for Warty (I want this back myself). If you want to
> > install only on some partitions, you should have heard the word
> > "partitioning" before.
> 
> Even though I'm the one who removed it, I'm actually unclear as to why
> we did it. Mark, can I put that option back? It's useful ...

It's more than that. Not having such an option is a showstopper for
people who want to try Warty without wanting to throw away all their
data on their hard disk. I already experienced this first-hand when I
gave my freshly burned Warty ISO to my neighbor.

Martin
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