Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (124 mails)

[Frank Steiner <fst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

studying section 4.4 of the ay2-docu from SuSE 9.0, it seems that one
great functionality from autoyast1 is los in autoyast2:

In ay1 you could specify this:

AUTO_FDISK_DISK /dev/hda        
FSTAB_SEARCH /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 
FSTAB_FORMAT / /boot

Behaviour would be: On a unpartitioned disk /dev/hda, partition it according 
to the specification in some file (was in the descr directory).

If the disk is already partitioned, search for /etc/fstab in partition 
1, 2 and 3. If no fstab was found, partition the whole drive according 
to the specification. If fstab was found, just format the partitions that
were mounted as /boot and / according to this fstab.

Thus, for a partitioned drive, you could just let autoyast format some
partitions, without any knowledge about number, id, size etc. of this
partition, while a fresh hard disk would be partitionied automatically.

In autoyast2, it seems that I have to know the partition numbers of /boot
and /. This would make things very complicated for a large set of different
hosts, because you would need a different partitions instruction for
a lot of hosts.

Also I don't see how I can perform a "if partitions exist, only format some,
if partitions do not exist, create them" scenario in general, even if I
would specify the partition numbers etc. Would a combination  of "<use>free</use>" 
and "<create>no</create>" create any partitions on an empty hard disk..?
I will try some things like that...


Are there any known solutions to these problems? 


cu,
Frank

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