Partitioning with unknown device

11 Nov 2003

      Hi all,

Is there any possibility to do the partitioning without knowing the
device (/dev/sda, /dev/hda)?
I'd like to have a Control-File which works on every machine, but only
found examples of control files with the <device>-Tag given explicitely.

My Installation worked with SCSI environment but crashes in IDE
environment. Any ideas?

The autoinst.xml looks as follows:

<partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/sda</device>
        <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            false

            <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>swap</mount>
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            <size>auto</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            false

            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>

                -b
                auto

                -i
                auto

                -Rstride=
                none

                -m
                auto

            <label></label>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
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            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
     <use>all</use>
   </drive>
</partitioning>

Greetings,

Martin

Partitioning with unknown device

Martin Moeser