Hi Ajay, the problem is that a change of the partition table is not recognized by autoyast when done in a pre-script. furthermore you need to format the new slizes and put a few files on the pre-partitioned disk. i did the following to get it done (partition layout is read from an external config file on nfs): - erase all possible old partitions on the target disk (echo d'\n'1'\n'd'\n'2'\n'd'\n'3'\n'd'\n'4'\n'w'\n' | fdisk \ /dev/target-disk ) - build the new layot the same way as deleting (i.q. echo -e 'n\np\n2\n\n+300MB\nt\n2\n82\nw\n' |fdisk ... for a 300MB swappartition) - format you file systems - mkdir needed mountpoints (minimum you need /etc and /bin [see later why]) - produce a fstab file with you layout on your target - cp /bin/bash to the /bin of your new /bin on disk - produce a /etc/SuSE-release file with the version information you get from the content file on the install media - bash-architectur, /etc/SuSE-release and /etc/fstab are checked by auto- yast later - put some flagfile on the new filesystem to be recognized by your script that it is prepared and doesn't need to be partitioned again - reboot the box - pre-script restarts, recognizes the i'm-ready-partitioned flag and just exits -> yast checks the disk for 'former' installation -> finds your new layout with the needed files -> formats it again and starts installation HTH Boris ps.: assuming you use the following in you xml-file for autoyast: <partitioning_advanced> <fstab> <use_existing_fstab config:type="boolean">true</use_existing_fstab> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> </partition> </partitions> </fstab> </partitioning_advanced>

--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Ajay Mulwani <ajaymulwani@gmail.com> An: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Betreff: [suse-autoinstall] Disk partitioning with pre script !! Datum: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:37:51 +0530

Hello List, Could someone please suggets any process to partition the disk probably using pre scripts or any other method in SLES9. I have a requirement to create swap which should be either equal or twice the RAM. Thanks, Ajay

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