[opensuse-autoinstall] partitioning problem 10.2 and autoinstall

19 Jan 2007

      Hallo,
what am I doing wrong here?
I have a setup with three linux partitions, that should be reused (formatted 
but not created) on installation.

I need to keep AutoYaST from creating his own partitions since I use
reborn network cards that do the partitioning themselves, which is
a common setup in a school like ours.

I followed the documentation and created this partitioning section:
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  <partitioning config:type="list">
    <drive>
      <device>/dev/hda</device>
      <partitions config:type="list">
        <partition>
          <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
          <mount>/boot</mount>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
        </partition>
        <partition>
          <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
          <mount>/</mount>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
        </partition>
        <partition>
          <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
          <mount>swap</mount>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
        </partition>
      </partitions>
    </drive>
  </partitioning>
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With this setup, AutoYaST reuses hda1 as boot as expected but
creates a new partition hda4 as root.
The partition table ist:
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/dev/hda1 * 1 13 184391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2    2883 5432 83 Linux
/dev/hda3   5433  5560 83 Linux
/dev/hda4   14  2882  83 Linux (this one is created by AutoYaST).
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"fdisk" tells me that the partitions are not in disk order.

Has anyone an idea about this? 
I used this setup for a while already and experimented a lot with different
"partitioning" sections but I can't keep AutoYaST from creating his
own partition.

Any help appreciated.

Bye,
Frank
Frank Schuette, Gymnasium Himmelsthuer, Germany
fschuett@gymnasium-himmelsthuer.de
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