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["jaiber john" <jaiber.john@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi

I'm attempting a SLES10 autoyast installation on a disk with
pre-configured partitions and getting the following error:

Error while configuring partitions. Try again!
in the preparing system for Automated installation screen.

I came across this thread
[http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-autoinstall/2005-12/msg00040.html]
, but the workarounds suggested (usepart config:type "integer", etc)
in it did not work. I am using SLES10 while the other mail thread
mentioned SuSE10.

Was it a bug in SLES10 that got fixed later - say SLES10.1? Please let
me know, I can provide more details if required. Thanks.

Here's the partitions list (fdisk -l):
Disk /dev/sdb: 79.9 GB, 79930851328 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9717 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1         841     6755301   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2             842        1589     6008310   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3            1590        1714     1004062+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4            1715        9717    64284097+   5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            1715        1865     1212876   83  Linux
/dev/sdb6            1866        2540     5421906   83  Linux
/dev/sdb7            2541        2592      417658+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb8            2593        3122     4257193+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb9            3123        3128       48163+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb10           3129        3157      232911   82  Linux swap / Solaris


And here's the partition portion from the autoyast.xml (It is actually
/tmp/autoinst/modified.xml -> The one modified through a pre-script to
change to correct device - /dev/sdb for example).

<partitioning config:type="list">
   <drive>
     <device>/dev/sdb</device>
     <initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize>
     <partitions config:type="list">
       <partition>
         <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
         <mount>/boot</mount>
         <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
       </partition>
       <partition>
         <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
         <mount>/</mount>
         <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
       </partition>
       <partition>
         <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
         <mount>swap</mount>
         <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
       </partition>
       <partition>
         <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
         <mount>/tmp</mount>
         <partition_nr config:type="integer">5</partition_nr>
       </partition>
       <partition>
         <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
         <mount>/usr</mount>
         <partition_nr config:type="integer">6</partition_nr>
       </partition>
       <partition>
         <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
         <mount>/var</mount>
         <partition_nr config:type="integer">7</partition_nr>
       </partition>
       <partition>
         <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
         <mount>/usr/local</mount>
         <partition_nr config:type="integer">8</partition_nr>
       </partition>
       <partition>
         <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
         <mount>swap</mount>
         <partition_nr config:type="integer">9</partition_nr>
       </partition>
       <partition>
         <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
         <mount>swap</mount>
         <partition_nr config:type="integer">10</partition_nr>
       </partition>
     </partitions>
   </drive>
 </partitioning>

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<Jaiber John>
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