* Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond [Apr 15. 2003 10:21]:

Hi!

Well - i didn't find an option in the gui either - using autoyast2 which comes with SuSE 8.1. BTW, digging through the documentation i found out what to change in the autoinst.xml to force use of the whole drive.

-8<---snip--- <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <use>all</use> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem> <mount>/boot</mount> 131 1 <size>25000000</size> </partition> <partition> <mount>swap</mount> 130 2 <size>512000000</size> </partition> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <mount>/</mount> 131 3 <size>auto</size> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> -8<---snip---

First of all, there is the <use>all</use> tag which forces autoinst to use the entire drive, no matter what partitions are defined. Next, i am setting fixed sizes for /boot and swap and use the rest of it (via the <size>auto</size> tag) for the root filesystem. This means editing the file by hand, but it works. Also, make sure, that there are no cylinder addresses defined in your XML-File, just partition_id, partition_nr and size. This way it works for every drive, no matter what size and no matter what partitions it has on it. Also, using the same autoinst.xml for both scsi- and ide-disks again involves editing the file, changing the <device>/dev/sda</device> to <device>/dev/hda</device>

You can also remove the device tag and let autoyast take what it finds, scsi or ide.. Reusing existing partitions is supported in 8.2 BTW. Anas

Hope this helps -- Wolfgang

--- ahmed@mindspring.com schrieb am 14.04.2003, 22:18 ---

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Using autoyast 2.6.4, I can't find an option (in the gui) to reuse the existing Linux partitions during an automatic installation. If the disk was previously partitioned, I get out of space errors on installation. Are there any bugs in 2.6.4 that are fixed in the newer version, or features added, esp around partitioning? Thanks, Ahmed

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