Re: [suse-autoinstall] Testing of config files

14 Jul 2004

      Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Neugebauer wrote:
...
Problem:
I have got completly similar computers expect the harddisc's. There are 
three Western Digital WD400EB (20.000 logical sectors) and fifteen 
Western Digital WD400BB (4800 logical sectors). This difference causes a 
problem with region tags in partition part of Configfile. How can I do a 
harddisc check as rule to create the region tags?
I need similar partitions to write the old image to it.
Why do you use region then? Wouldn't it be easier to specify sizes? To
create a new partition /dev/hda2 of 200mb for /boot I use sth. like

           <partition>
             <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
             <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
             <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
             <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
             <mount>/boot</mount>
             2
             <size>200mb</size>
           </partition>

and if this partition already existed before and I want to reformat it
I just use

           <partition>
             <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
             <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
             <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
             <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
             <mount>/boot</mount>
             2
           </partition>

without giving a size.

This way you never have to deal with sectors...

cu,
Frank

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