On Wednesday 21 September 2005 13:50, Frank Steiner wrote:
with a primary partition 2, without any prim. part. 1 at all, I don't think that's possible with autoyast but I really would be interested for what kind of reason you need such a strange partitioning.
Indeed we used to have this for certain hosts, because we weren't sure yet if the first partition was going to be a windows or linux partition later, so we just left the space unused.
okay. I can't say if this is possible with autoyast. I did not try to have an empty space instead of the first primary until now.
Anyway, it does work this way in 9.0 :-) Is it really difficult to make autoyast work this way?
I can't say. the partitioning code in autoyast is very complex. I'll really have to fight with that beast in the near future and I keep that in mind.
Seriously, can you say sth. about the second and third problem? autoyast used to auto-generate an extended partition as /dev/hda4 if only /dev/hda1-3 and /dev/hda5 were specified.
that is still the case.
"Wizard, wizard, make it work!" ;-)
It's not that different from your version but I had to workaround a bug in
RC1 (<usepart> for partition 1) and I've added some
Oh, btw, talking about old features: autoyast1 (SuSE 6.4) used to have this feature "If I find an fstab, I reuse it and leave all partitions untouched, unless I'm told to format some". This fstab-feature was missing in 9.0 completely and came back in 9.1,
that might be. Autoyast in 10.0 is the first autoyast that I'm responsible for.
but now with the contrary behaviour: "format all partitions unless I'm told to leave some untouched". This is somewhat dangerous because you will accidentally format partitions if you forget to specify them. Couldn't this be changed so that one can chose if the default behaviour is either format-all or format-none?
hmmm. I have to take a look at that by myself to see how that works and how it behaves. -- 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