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.
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<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>
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1
<size>25000000</size>
</partition>
<partition>
<mount>swap</mount>
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2
<size>512000000</size>
</partition>
<partition>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
<mount>/</mount>
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3
<size>auto</size>
</partition>
</partitions>
</drive>
</partitioning>
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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>
Hope this helps
--
Wolfgang
--- ahmed@mindspring.com schrieb am 14.04.2003, 22:18 ---
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
