Sorry - wrong xml include in the first message (and my first post, too :-() It should have read: <drive> <device>/dev/sdy</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">true</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>auto</size> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">true</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> Regards, Mostyn On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Mostyn Lewis wrote:

A Sun X4500 machine has 48 SATA disk inside. When installing via PXE and using autoyast, we want 47 of those disks to be ignored and only one, /dev/sdy, to be used for the install.

How can you tell autoyast to complete ignore disks? When installing you get messages for each disk such as:

The partitioning on disk /dev/sdap is not readable by the partitioning tool parted, which is used to change thepartition table. You can use the partitions on disk /dev/sdap as they are. You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk with this tool.

And it waits to time out for 10 seconds.

The only autoyast xml is for/dev/sday:

... <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> <use>all</use> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/boot</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>1gb</size> </partition> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <size>20gb</size> </partition> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id> <size>8188mb</size> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> ...

Later on it complains again.

So, I'd like to ignore disks and not get any prompts.

Any advice, anybody?

Regards, Mostyn Lewis

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