Thank you for your help. This worked wonderfully. However, once the install is complete I have /dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7 as my /boot and / partitions. Not that it's a huge issue, but to keep things clean I would obviously like to have these on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. Is this because it uses /dev/hdax during the installation and can't make/mount those while the install is running? One more thing: When using the AutoYast utility to include a postinstall script, it embeds the shell script in the xml file and has a blank <location> tag, and does not run. What's the recommended way to do this? I tried specifying the <location> of the script (full path + script name), however, this didn't work either. Thanks for your help! Warren On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:39, warren@leetnet.com wrote:
I tell the server the path to my autoyasttest.xml and everything looks great until it goes to partition/format/mount the drives. It's saying it cannot format hda6, however it shouldn't even be looking at or creating an hda6.
it seems that you hit a bug in SLES9SP3 autoyast gets confused by the "max" on the primary partition. Either remove the "max" and replace it by a size (like "10GB") or remove the <partition_type>primary</partition_type> or specify <partition_type>primary</partition_type> for all partitions. There is a bug in the "max" calculation in SP3 :(