Anas Nashif: Mounting before Installation?

7 Nov 2002

      Hi

I have many problems by using a allready created partition. You will find many
requests to this object in this list from me.

Problems:
I have a harddisk with some partitions. Two of this partitions are typ hex 83/82
(131/130). I do not know the partitionnumber or size.

so i had tried different possibilities without any success:

<partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/sda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
        <partition>
         <mount>/</mount>
         <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
         <size>auto</size>
     </partition>
     <partition>
         <mount>swap</mount>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
         <size>auto</size>
     </partition>
     </partitions>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>

or this...

<partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/sda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
        <partition>
         <mount>/</mount>
         <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
     </partition>
     <partition>
         <mount>swap</mount>
         <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
         <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
     </partition>
     </partitions>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>

Caused no of this solution works i found another:

<pre-scripts config:type="list">
        <script>
          <filename>preinstall</filename>
          <interpreter>shell</interpreter>
          <source>
<![CDATA[
#!/bin/bash
echo "modprobe reiserfs"
modprobe reiserfs
echo "Format active partition to reiserfs"
mkreiserfs -f `fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep "*" | cut -b 1-9`
echo "Format swap"
mkswap 'fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep "Linux swap" | cut -b 1-9`
echo "Mount active partition to /mnt/"
mount -t reiserfs `fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep "*" | cut -b 1-9` /mnt

]]>
          </source>
        </script>
      </pre-scripts>
    </scripts>
....
without drive TAG

But this will not work too... what can i do?
Is there any solution?
What i have to do to get the right fstab for the installed system?

Please help me!

Thanks!

bye

Alexander

Anas Nashif: Mounting before Installation?

Alexander.Gehrig＠RSD.rohde-schwarz.com