[suse-autoinstall] keeping partitions
Hi,
I'm using autoyast to install SuSE 10.0 on a set of systems. Keeping
partitions seems to be a problem.
The partitiontable looks like
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4 32098+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 5 1279 10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1280 2554 10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 2555 14593 96703267+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2555 2558 32098+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 2559 3323 6144831 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 3324 4088 6144831 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 4089 4216 1028128+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda9 4217 8041 30724281 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 8042 13141 40965718+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda11 13142 14593 11663158+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
What I want to do is to keep all the partitions, just to format the
boot- and root- partition of the new system (/dev/sda1 , /dev/sda6) and
to set some mount points.
In a first attempt the relevant part of my config file was
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<device>/dev/sda</device>
<initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
On Monday 05 December 2005 13:29, Thomas Holzapfel wrote:
I'm using autoyast to install SuSE 10.0 on a set of systems. Keeping partitions seems to be a problem.
... <!-- <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem> <partition_nr config:type="integer">5</partition_nr> <usepart config:type="integer">5</usepart> <mount>/export/suse/9.3/boot</mount> </partition> --> ...
the 10.0 has a bug with keeping partitions. Try to use the line I have added to you profile above. That should workaround the problem unless there are more errors in your profile (I did not take a closer look). -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de
Uwe Gansert wrote:
On Monday 05 December 2005 13:29, Thomas Holzapfel wrote:
I'm using autoyast to install SuSE 10.0 on a set of systems. Keeping partitions seems to be a problem.
... ...
the 10.0 has a bug with keeping partitions. Try to use the line I have added to you profile above. That should workaround the problem unless there are more errors in your profile (I did not take a closer look).
Hi Uwe, thanks for your help, however it doesn't work for me. I started another series of attempts and I found something of interest. It doen't matter, which partition-directive to comment out, my config file works fine. For example activating the partition-directive for partition 5 and commenting out another ext. partition also works. Is there a limit to the number of mount points to be set by autoyast? Perhaps there is a way to prevent autoyast to set additional mount points to the ntfs-partitions automatically to reduce the number of mount points? -- thanks, Thomas Holzapfel Lehrstuhl und Institut fuer Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft RWTH Aachen
On Monday 05 December 2005 15:58, Thomas Holzapfel wrote:
thanks for your help, however it doesn't work for me.
I know. After I sent the mail, it came to my mind that the bug was only in a release candidate of 10.0 but not in the final version. So the best is to ignore my prev. mail - it should work without the "usepart" in the final 10.0 version
I started another series of attempts and I found something of interest. It doen't matter, which partition-directive to comment out, my config file works fine. For example activating the partition-directive for partition 5 and commenting out another ext. partition also works. Is there a limit to the number of mount points to be set by autoyast?
there is no limit in mountpoints but a SCSI disk can't have more than 15 partitions. Do you hit that limit? It's a kernel limit - no autoyast limit.
Perhaps there is a way to prevent autoyast to set additional mount points to the ntfs-partitions automatically to reduce the number of mount points?
the number of mount points should be no problem. There is no autoyast limit. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de
Uwe Gansert wrote:
there is no limit in mountpoints but a SCSI disk can't have more than 15 partitions. Do you hit that limit? It's a kernel limit - no autoyast limit.
Hi Uwe, No I don't hit that limit, I listed the complete disk-layout in my first mail. Next week I'll proceed testing on a system with a different disk-layout. Thanks for your help, -- Thomas Holzapfel Lehrstuhl und Institut fuer Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft RWTH Aachen
Thomas Holzapfel wrote:
I'm using autoyast to install SuSE 10.0 on a set of systems. Keeping partitions seems to be a problem.
We succeeded to install SuSE Linux 10.0 on a partitioned disk with
keeping partition /private
by using the existing fstab .
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