Hey guys, I am trying to get autoyast in SLES9 to work with a fairly complex partitioning scheme and have thus far hit nothing but dead ends. I have 11 partitions, one of which is an LVM partition. I couldn't not get autoyast to create this partition scheme for me. The solution I came up with was to create the partitions a pre script. That worked nicely but now I could not get autoyast to format the partitions and create the LVM volume. Ok, why not have the pre-script handle that too. Quite easy and it works fine. Next I could not figure out how to get autoyast to accept the partitions, accept the fact that they are formated and ready for use and just mount them up. It kept trying to delete them and create /boot, / and swap. Ughh... Ok, fine, let the pre-install script take it a step further and mount everything up. Well, with everything mounted up it will complain that it can't paritino the drive, makes sense since it's mounted and gives you the 'abort', 'retry', 'continue' options. Hit continue and the install continues, instals all the packages and everything is set to go until the fstab, initrd and grub configuration are created. Again, this can be handled in the post-install script, not a problem. However, the error message is a problem. So this may not be the solution. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions at all concerning why I can't get the autoyast partitioning to do what I want?! Thanks, -Nick
What exactly are you tryingto do and why cant you create the partitions with autoyast? Can you post the desired partitioning plan you want to have? Anas Nicholas DeClario wrote:
Hey guys,
I am trying to get autoyast in SLES9 to work with a fairly complex partitioning scheme and have thus far hit nothing but dead ends. I have 11 partitions, one of which is an LVM partition. I couldn't not get autoyast to create this partition scheme for me.
The solution I came up with was to create the partitions a pre script. That worked nicely but now I could not get autoyast to format the partitions and create the LVM volume. Ok, why not have the pre-script handle that too. Quite easy and it works fine.
Next I could not figure out how to get autoyast to accept the partitions, accept the fact that they are formated and ready for use and just mount them up. It kept trying to delete them and create /boot, / and swap. Ughh... Ok, fine, let the pre-install script take it a step further and mount everything up.
Well, with everything mounted up it will complain that it can't paritino the drive, makes sense since it's mounted and gives you the 'abort', 'retry', 'continue' options. Hit continue and the install continues, instals all the packages and everything is set to go until the fstab, initrd and grub configuration are created. Again, this can be handled in the post-install script, not a problem. However, the error message is a problem. So this may not be the solution.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions at all concerning why I can't get the autoyast partitioning to do what I want?!
Thanks, -Nick
Ok, I was having this problem with SuSE 9.1 Pro. When I redid everything from scratch using SLES9 it works fine. The partitioning scheme is 11 partitions, one is swap, one is root and one is another non-standard mount point. The last partition no the drive is an LVM partition which has four partitions within it for /opt, /var/opt, /tmp and another non-standard mount point. I could not get this working in SuSE 9.1 at all but like I mentioned, it does work in SLES9. I just had to redo the partition section of my control script. -Nick On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Anas Nashif wrote:
What exactly are you tryingto do and why cant you create the partitions with autoyast? Can you post the desired partitioning plan you want to have?
Anas
Nicholas DeClario wrote:
Hey guys,
I am trying to get autoyast in SLES9 to work with a fairly complex partitioning scheme and have thus far hit nothing but dead ends. I have 11 partitions, one of which is an LVM partition. I couldn't not get autoyast to create this partition scheme for me.
The solution I came up with was to create the partitions a pre script. That worked nicely but now I could not get autoyast to format the partitions and create the LVM volume. Ok, why not have the pre-script handle that too. Quite easy and it works fine.
Next I could not figure out how to get autoyast to accept the partitions, accept the fact that they are formated and ready for use and just mount them up. It kept trying to delete them and create /boot, / and swap. Ughh... Ok, fine, let the pre-install script take it a step further and mount everything up.
Well, with everything mounted up it will complain that it can't paritino the drive, makes sense since it's mounted and gives you the 'abort', 'retry', 'continue' options. Hit continue and the install continues, instals all the packages and everything is set to go until the fstab, initrd and grub configuration are created. Again, this can be handled in the post-install script, not a problem. However, the error message is a problem. So this may not be the solution.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions at all concerning why I can't get the autoyast partitioning to do what I want?!
Thanks, -Nick
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