Re: [suse-autoinstall] Anas Nashif: Mounting before Installation?

7 Nov 2002

      * Alexander.Gehrig@RSD.rohde-schwarz.com <Alexander.Gehrig@RSD.rohde-schwarz.com> [Nov 07. 2002 16:45]:
...
Hi
I have many problems by using a allready created partition. You will find many
requests to this object in this list from me.
You dont have to put my name in the Subject to catch my attention :-)
I have seen your previous posting and will look into this when the time
allows, read 'now', one day after your initial posting...

I still dont understand what are you trying to do. You have a
pre-partitioned disk and you want to use already existing partitions by
only formatting them and without actually re-partitioning the disk?

If yes, then currently this wont work.
With <use> you can specify which partitions you want to use and autoyast
will only use the space that was occupied by those partitions. This
requires that the partitions in question are at the end of the disk.

Anas
...
Problems:
I have a harddisk with some partitions. Two of this partitions are typ hex 83/82
(131/130). I do not know the partitionnumber or size.
so i had tried different possibilities without any success:
<partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/sda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
        <partition>
         <mount>/</mount>
         <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
         <size>auto</size>
     </partition>
     <partition>
         <mount>swap</mount>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
         <size>auto</size>
     </partition>
     </partitions>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>
or this...
<partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/sda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
        <partition>
         <mount>/</mount>
         <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
     </partition>
     <partition>
         <mount>swap</mount>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
     </partition>
     </partitions>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>
Caused no of this solution works i found another:
<pre-scripts config:type="list">
        <script>
          <filename>preinstall</filename>
          <interpreter>shell</interpreter>
          <source>
<![CDATA[
#!/bin/bash
echo "modprobe reiserfs"
modprobe reiserfs
echo "Format active partition to reiserfs"
mkreiserfs -f `fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep "*" | cut -b 1-9`
echo "Format swap"
mkswap 'fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep "Linux swap" | cut -b 1-9`
echo "Mount active partition to /mnt/"
mount -t reiserfs `fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep "*" | cut -b 1-9` /mnt
]]>
          </source>
        </script>
      </pre-scripts>
    </scripts>
....
without drive TAG
But this will not work too... what can i do?
Is there any solution?
What i have to do to get the right fstab for the installed system?
Please help me!
Thanks!
bye
Alexander
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