* Alexander.Gehrig@RSD.rohde-schwarz.com Alexander.Gehrig@RSD.rohde-schwarz.com [Nov 07. 2002 16:45]:

Hi

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

You dont have to put my name in the Subject to catch my attention :-) I have seen your previous posting and will look into this when the time allows, read 'now', one day after your initial posting...

I still dont understand what are you trying to do. You have a pre-partitioned disk and you want to use already existing partitions by only formatting them and without actually re-partitioning the disk?

If yes, then currently this wont work. With <use> you can specify which partitions you want to use and autoyast will only use the space that was occupied by those partitions. This requires that the partitions in question are at the end of the disk.

Anas

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

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