partitioning fails

1 Jul 2005

      Dear all,

as a systemadministrator for a research group at a university,I'd like 
to use autoyast to install version 9.3 on all the computers. While 
trying my autoyast file on a test system, I get this error while 
partitioning:

"Error while configuring partitions. Try again."

When I look at the partitioning after this, it looks like yast is 
determining it's own partitioning scheme, since it partitions a swap 
partition first and then a / partition.

my configuration file looks like this (for partitioning):

<partitioning>
       <drive>
         <device>/dev/hda</device>
         <partitions>
           <partition>
             <mount>/</mount>
             <size>3gb</size>
           </partition>
           <partition>
             <mount>swap</mount>
             <size>auto</size>
           </partition>
         </partitions>
         <use>all</use>
       </drive>
     </partitioning>

after checking y2log I found the following error:

2005-07-01 07:24:22 <3> linux(2771) [Interpreter] 
clients/inst_autosetup.ycp:118 Can't convert value 
'$["drive":$["device":"/dev/hda", 
"partitions":$["partition":$["mount":"swap", "size":"auto"]], 
"use":"all"]]' to type 'list'
2005-07-01 07:24:22 <3> linux(2771) [Interpreter] 
clients/inst_autosetup.ycp:118 Parameter eval failed (/* any -> list 
*/Profile::Flat["partitioning"]:[])
2005-07-01 07:24:22 <1> linux(2771) [YCP] AutoinstStorage.ycp:300 Target 
map: $["/dev/hda":$["bios_id":"0x80", "bus":"IDE", "cyl_count":13328, 
"cyl_size":483328, "label":"msdos", "max_logical":63, "max_primary":4, 
"model":"MPD3064AT", "name":"1. IDE,    5.9 GB, /dev/hda, 
FUJITSU-MPD3064AT", "partitions":[], "scrpath":."hda", 
"unique":"l_yX.aATOdNRb6qD"]]
2005-07-01 07:24:22 <1> linux(2771) [YCP] AutoinstStorage.ycp:306 disk 
with bios_id 0x80: /dev/hda
2005-07-01 07:24:22 <1> linux(2771) [YCP] AutoinstStorage.ycp:311 mbr 
disk: /dev/hda
2005-07-01 07:24:22 <1> linux(2771) [YCP] AutoinstStorage.ycp:164 
processed autoyast partition plan: $[]

TIA,

Maarten Hilgenga
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University of Groningen
Department of Applied Physics
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