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Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] partitioning problem 10.2 and autoinstall
  • From: fschuett <fschuett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:57:23 +0100
  • Message-id: <200701291157.24690.fschuett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 11:57 schrieb fschuett:
> Am Montag, 22. Januar 2007 14:18 schrieb Uwe Gansert:
> > On Monday 22 January 2007 11:41, fschuett wrote:
> > > Here comes the partitioning before installation:
> > > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> > > /dev/hda2 2883 5432 20482843+ 83 Linux
> > > /dev/hda3 5433 5560 1028128+ 82 Linux swap/Solaris
> > >
> > > The difference in size for /dev/hda1 is a typing error by me.
> >
> > why the gap between hda1 and hda2?
> > Maybe that's the reason because in my test I had no gap configured.
>
> I use a "reborn card" as network card. This card protects the hd from
> unwanted changes (very necessary in a school environment).
> This card comes with a BIOS and does the partitioning itself.
> I installed two partitions for windows 98 which are hidden, when I
> boot into Linux. This two partitions are in the gap. So my
> partitioning is
> Linux (hda1)
> Windows (c:)
> Windows (d:)
> Linux (hda2)
> Linux swap (hda3).
>
> Windows needs to be near the beginning of the disk to be bootable.
>
I did some more testing.
If I have a gap somewhere between the partitions or in front of the first
partition, my partitioning scheme is not used by AutoYaST.

That is a big problem for me because I need to have the Windows partition
at the beginning of the disk, otherwise Win 98 is not bootable.

I tried the new tag partitioning_advanced, but I found the partitions
don't get formatted and the old system (SuSE 10.1) is merged with the new
system (10.2). So this is not an alternative.

I am really stuck with this.

I think AutoYaST is not supposed to act in this way. If you have a patch for
me, I could test it on my system, since I use a central repository on my
server and could use the patch as "y2update".

Thank you for any help.

Bye,
Frank Schuette
fschuett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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