If you are starting from scratch without a partition table or with an invalid one you should use: <use>all</use> This should wipe the partition table. Also all partions should be formated. If you going to install additional Suse linux version to the other partitions then you there is no NEED anymore for partitioning. Of cource then you have to use the "rules.xml" Also if you define "/" you should also define swap ! ... -> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> .... .... <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> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> After these steps you should have 3 formated "/" partitions and a swap. where Partition 1 will be used as "/" and Partition 4 as swap. Partition 2 & 3 are free for use. hth Hajo

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John Clemens <jclemens@virtualiron.com> 08/17/05 5:13 pm >>>

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Uwe Gansert wrote:

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 16:46, John Clemens wrote:

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The only problem I've yet to solve is that the install pauses halfway through with the above error, making the user press ok to

I've never seen that error or heard of it until now.

Thanks for responding..

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<partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>

you can try to set <initialize ...>false</initialize> or do you really need it?

Err, I assumed initialize meant wipe the partition table and start from scratch.. I'll go back to the documentation and see what it really does.. http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstallation/9.1/html/CreateProfile.Partition... doesn't seem to mention it. what exactly does it do? It was a checkbox in the yast autoinstall program i used to create the file. After trying it, it didn't give the reread failure, which is a nice step forward; but it did give me a timed out error message saying "error, partitions are not contiguous". and then another one claiming there was an error setting up the partitions, and the dumped me back to the linuxrc menu.

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<use>1,4</use>

why is that?

local convention.. in our test environment we have OS's on partition 1-3 and swap on partition 4. so I want to tell SLES to use partition 1 for the OS, and 4 for swap, and ignore the part 2 and 3. maybe that's causing the above problem. Let me try a few things now that I'm getting further. Thanks for the help. john.c -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com