-----Original Message----- From: Suffin, Charles [mailto:Charles.Suffin@stratus.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 6:01 PM To: Ryan Allen; suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-autoinstall] Funny partitioning behaviour

I think you need to use the partition_nr property in the definition of your partitions, Ryan. If you tell autoyast that /boot is 1, swap is 2, and / is 3, I think you will not run into the problem of YaST attempting to add new partitions to the disk:

. . . <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <mount>/boot</mount> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> * --> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>1gb</size> . . .

-- Charlie

-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Allen [mailto:r.allen@f5.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:44 PM To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Funny partitioning behaviour

Hi,

I'm doing automated (no user intervention) installs of suse 9.2 using autoyast. I would like autoyast to wipe clean the partition table, create new partitions regardless of what's there, and format them. For some reason, it's creating the first partition on /dev/hda6, and going up from there. The install fails because it thinks there is not enough HD space.

I'd like it to start from /dev/hda1:

/dev/hda1 30 Megs /boot

/dev/hda2 1 Gig /var

/dev/hda3 512 Megs swap

/dev/hda4 remainder of HD /

Here is my config. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Ryan

P.S. also, why did autoyast put in the <crypt> tags and can I take

Thanks Charlie. This solved my problem. I also changed: <initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize> to true, that is supposed to tell the installer to wipe out any existing partitions on the HD. Thanks for your help! -- Ryan them

out? Thanks again!

<partitioning config:type="list">

<drive>

<device>/dev/hda</device>

<initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize>

<partitions config:type="list">

<partition>

<crypt>twofish256</crypt>

<filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</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>

<size>30M</size>

</partition>

<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>

<size>512M</size>

</partition>

<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>/var</mount>

<partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>

<size>1G</size>

</partition>

<partition>

<crypt>twofish256</crypt>

<filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</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>

<size>max</size>

</partition>

</partitions>

<use>all</use>

</drive>

</partitioning>