Hi, Uwe Gansert schrieb, Am 08.09.2005 18:10:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 15:00, Sven Geipel wrote:
I try to auto-install 9.2 and leave my first (windows) partition untouched. How can I do that?
I have to clarify this a little bit more. What I do is: - partition the disk with 10GB primary and remain space as extended partition withoul logical ones - then install Windows unattended on primary partition What I want to do is now - autoinstall linux with reusing extended partition and create primary, extended and logical partitions instead I tried to use settings "use free space" and "reuse only specified partition" when I created autoinst.xml with autoyast. With first option, autoyast tries to create all linux partitions _after_ extended partition instead of using it. And with second option, autoyast deletes partition 2 and tries to create linux partitions at _beginning of disk_, where my windows partition lives. (partition sheme below)
When autoyast is partitioning my disk, it deletes the extended partition no. 2 (ok).
partition nr. 2 is not an extended partition on what you show us next:
device size F type mountpoint start end /dev/hda 37.2GB 0 4864 /dev/hda1 9.9GB NTFS 0 1303 /dev/hda2 39.2MB F ext3 /boot 0 4 /dev/hda3 1GB F swap swap 5 135 ...
What I'm doing wrong?
just a guess (I would have to setup a 9.2 test system for a real test)
<use>2</use>
If 2 is your extended partition you want to erase, try to add the logic ones too. So try <use>2,5,6,7...</use>
Yesterday I found a way by creating all partitions with windows unattended script and then use <create config:type="boolean">false</create> and <format config:type="boolean">true</format> in autoinst.xml. This works, but if I want to change partition sheme I have to do it on two positions. BTW: how can I define, that linux should not mount existing windows partition? It tried to mount as /Windows/C and after I removed mount point in autoinst.xml it tried to mount to /data1. -- best regards Sven Geipel