Partition Problems

9 Aug 2005

      I have read the archives and cannot find a simular problem.

I want to create an auto-install CD that uses all available space on the disk.  I want to create these partitions:
swap  - 2GB
/     - 6GB
/boot - 2GB
/home - max(The rest of the drive) ... its a 36GB SCSI.

After the install i do a "df -h" to get these values for my partition.
rootfs     - 2.0G - /
tmpfs      - 2.0G - /
/dev/loop0 - 155M - /mounts/instsys
/dev/hdc   - 340M - /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/.......
/dev/sda2  - 773M - /mnt
/dev/sda3  - 259M - /mnt/boot
/dev/sda4  - 3.1G - /mnt/home

I noticed, however, that if before I boot from the CD, I run fdisk /dev/sda, and clear the partition table, THEN boot from the CD I get the partition sizes I want.  In AutoYast I selected to initialize the drive, and to "Reuse all existing partitions".  It is a requirement that I have no user interaction setting up these machines with SuSe, and I dont want to have to clear out the partition table before I boot with the install CD every time.  Here is my partitioning section.  Anyone see what I'm doing wrong?  Is there a way to run fdisk and clear it out automatically before Yast probes the hard drives?  I know the pre-install scripts run after the probe and the rules suggestion in previous postings do not work either.  Thanks in advance.

    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/sda</device>
        <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <crypt>twofish256</crypt>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount>swap</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>2GB</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <crypt>twofish256</crypt>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>6GB</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <crypt>twofish256</crypt>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount>/boot</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>2GB</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <crypt>twofish256</crypt>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount>/home</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>

Partition Problems

Sean Siemsen