If you choose "confirm installation" (I don't remember the exact wording) under "General options" (or whatever they're called), you'll get the possibility of changing the partion scheme among other things, but otherwise use auto installation. Actually, you can choose "reread partition table" and then choose which partitions to format and where to mount them. This is not horribly complicated, but a way to do this automatically would be nice. I use this method for upgrading 7.3 computers to 8.1. Best regards, Rasmus -- Rasmus Borup Hansen, system adm. Email: rbh@math.ku.dk Institute for Mathematical Sciences Phone: +45 353 20759 Universitetsparken 5 Cell phone: +45 20829308 DK-2100 Ø, Denmark Office: E208 Urs Haberthuer writes:

On Saturday 11 January 2003 06:33, Anas Nashif wrote:

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* Urs Haberthuer [Jan 04. 2003 12:34]:

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Dear All,

I read all mails concerning partitioning but none answers my problem. I have a single Linux client with one harddisk. The disk has 4 primary partitions: /boot on /dev/hda1, swap on /dev/hda2, / on /dev/hda3 and /home on /dev/hda4.

I would like to install SuSE 8.1 with autoyast2 and WITHOUT recreating partitions.

This is currently not supported.

Will this be supported in SuSE 8.2 or in an update for SuSE 8.1?

In my opinion, this is a killer feature. Due to its lack, we are currently forced to stay with SuSE 7.3 although we would very much like to use SuSE 8.1. We have a cluster of about 60 machines. The space on the home partitions adds up to Terabytes that we don't want to and can't backup. We need an installation setup that does not touch the partition table and homes for sure.

I wonder what all the people who use autoyast2 plan for the future. If you get a new machine, one formats the complete harddrive, but what if the machines have been installed and been in productive use for some time and then get hacked, or you would like to install the next SuSE version? Then you want to reinstall and format the system partitions and not touch the partitions with the user data. (From what I've heard, if you switch from an older to a later SuSE version, you don't want to just upgrade, you want to reinstall the system partitions from scratch since otherwise you may run in many problems and you won't end up with a clean system.) Did I miss something, or is this is really not yet possible with autoyast2?

-- Urs Haberthuer

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