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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: Installation Questions
From:       "Monique Y. Herman" <spam () bounceswoosh ! org>
Date:       2004-02-29 23:52:41
Message-ID: slrnc44uq9.t38.spam () home ! bounceswoosh ! org
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On 2004-02-29, Martin Kuball penned:
> Hi!
>
> I'm planing to install Debian on my desktop machine which already has
> a running Linux. But not Debian which I came to like recently because
> I use it on my laptop.
>
> So here is the question. Is it possible with the debian installer to
> skip some of the tasks? Especially formatting the partitions and
> installing a new kernel? Which means I want to keep my LILO settings
> and everything in /boot and /lib/modules.
>

Not sure about the kernel bit, but you can choose not to run lilo or
reformat partitions.  I'd imagine that you could move /lib/modules to
/lib/modules.orig, and that way, if it tries to overwrite them, you can
just move 'em back.

-- 
monique


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