Hi, studying section 4.4 of the ay2-docu from SuSE 9.0, it seems that one great functionality from autoyast1 is los in autoyast2: In ay1 you could specify this: AUTO_FDISK_DISK /dev/hda FSTAB_SEARCH /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 FSTAB_FORMAT / /boot Behaviour would be: On a unpartitioned disk /dev/hda, partition it according to the specification in some file (was in the descr directory). If the disk is already partitioned, search for /etc/fstab in partition 1, 2 and 3. If no fstab was found, partition the whole drive according to the specification. If fstab was found, just format the partitions that were mounted as /boot and / according to this fstab. Thus, for a partitioned drive, you could just let autoyast format some partitions, without any knowledge about number, id, size etc. of this partition, while a fresh hard disk would be partitionied automatically. In autoyast2, it seems that I have to know the partition numbers of /boot and /. This would make things very complicated for a large set of different hosts, because you would need a different partitions instruction for a lot of hosts. Also I don't see how I can perform a "if partitions exist, only format some, if partitions do not exist, create them" scenario in general, even if I would specify the partition numbers etc. Would a combination of "<use>free</use>" and "<create>no</create>" create any partitions on an empty hard disk..? I will try some things like that... Are there any known solutions to these problems? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Mail: fst_at_bio.informatik.uni-muenchen.de Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: frank_at_familiesteiner.de LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049, Fax: -4054 80333 Muenchen, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/