Eric, In your xml, only first partition is set to primary, the reason why you swap on /dev/hda5 (hda2 is extended). I am not sure why you are using <use>1,2,3</use> If you have nothing to keep on the disk, you should use <use>all</use> which will delete everything on the disk and create the partitions from scratch. If you have something you want to keep on the disks, then the configuration below is wrong. Anas Eric Schwartz wrote:

Hello all,

I'm setting up a SUSE autoinstallation environment for the first time, and things are going relatively smoothly, EXCEPT... when it comes time to set up the partition table, autoyast complains that it can't set up the swap space on /dev/hda5. This is perplexing, since I only specified three partitions, including the swap space. I've included the pertinent part of the xml config file below. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Eric Schwartz.

<partitioning config:type=list> <drive> <device>/dev/hda</device> <initialize config:type=boolean>true</initialize> <partitions config:type=list> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type=symbol>ext3</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> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>40M</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>350MB</size> </partition> <partition> <crypt>twofish256</crypt> <filesystem config:type=symbol>ext3</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> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> </partitioning>