A very basic partitioning problem
Hello,
I habe a suse10.1 system and I am trying to do an autoinstall on it. This
works if there are no linux partitions on it but it fails when I do the auto
install the second time, so there are already linux partitions (boot,
swap, /) in place.
In the autoyast file I said:
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<device>/dev/hda</device>
<initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize>
<use>linux</use>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<crypt>twofish256</crypt>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
On Thursday 13 April 2006 14:48, Rainer Krienke wrote:
I habe a suse10.1 system and I am trying to do an autoinstall on it. This works if there are no linux partitions on it but it fails when I do the auto install the second time, so there are already linux partitions (boot, swap, /) in place.
actually that should work. What is the exact partitioning on the harddisk? Paste the complete partitioning section from your profile too please.
As far as I understood the documentation <use>linux</use> should delete all linux specific partitions or reuse them.
true
/var/adm/autoinstall/logs/ but this directory is still empty.
it's in /var/log/YaST2/y2log -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de
Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2006 15:24 schrieb Uwe Gansert:
On Thursday 13 April 2006 14:48, Rainer Krienke wrote:
I habe a suse10.1 system and I am trying to do an autoinstall on it. This works if there are no linux partitions on it but it fails when I do the auto install the second time, so there are already linux partitions (boot, swap, /) in place.
actually that should work. What is the exact partitioning on the harddisk? Paste the complete partitioning section from your profile too please.
The partitioning is:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1912 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 1913 1921 72292+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1922 4866 23655712+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1922 2052 1052226 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 2053 3358 10490413+ 83 Linux
The partitioning section of the autoyast file is:
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<device>/dev/hda</device>
<initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize>
<use>linux</use>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<crypt>twofish256</crypt>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
On Thursday 13 April 2006 15:51, Rainer Krienke wrote:
The partitioning is: ... The partitioning section of the autoyast file is:
both looks good. I don't see anything wrong. I tried your profile on a disk with a very similar partitioning and it works fine here. Do you really have a Windows Filesystem on hda1? <use>linux</use> checks the filesystem but anyway, you should not get such an error message. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de
Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2006 16:27 schrieb Uwe Gansert:
On Thursday 13 April 2006 15:51, Rainer Krienke wrote:
The partitioning is:
...
The partitioning section of the autoyast file is:
both looks good. I don't see anything wrong. I tried your profile on a disk with a very similar partitioning and it works fine here. Do you really have a Windows Filesystem on hda1? <use>linux</use> checks the filesystem but anyway, you should not get such an error message.
The filesystem on hda1 is "ntfs" so clearly not linux. Running a rescue system
I can even mount it (as ntfs) and show the contents.
I also tried to add
Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2006 16:27 schrieb Uwe Gansert:
On Thursday 13 April 2006 15:51, Rainer Krienke wrote:
The partitioning is:
...
The partitioning section of the autoyast file is:
both looks good. I don't see anything wrong. I tried your profile on a disk with a very similar partitioning and it works fine here. Do you really have a Windows Filesystem on hda1? <use>linux</use> checks the filesystem but anyway, you should not get such an error message.
In between I tried the very same with SuSE 10.1 RC1. The effect remaines. Reuse of existing linux partitions fails using autoyast. Any idea Thanks Rainer --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke@uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:51:59PM +0200, Rainer Krienke wrote:
<partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/hda</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize> <use>linux</use>
Try adding:
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