I think you need to use the partition_nr property in the definition of your
partitions, Ryan. If you tell autoyast that /boot is 1, swap is 2, and / is
3, I think you will not run into the problem of YaST attempting to add new
partitions to the disk:
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<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<mount>/boot</mount>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
131
* --> 1
primary
<size>1gb</size>
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-- Charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Allen [mailto:r.allen@f5.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:44 PM
To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Funny partitioning behaviour
Hi,
I'm doing automated (no user intervention) installs of suse 9.2 using
autoyast. I would like autoyast to wipe clean the partition table,
create new partitions regardless of what's there, and format them. For
some reason, it's creating the first partition on /dev/hda6, and going
up from there. The install fails because it thinks there is not enough
HD space.
I'd like it to start from /dev/hda1:
/dev/hda1 30 Megs /boot
/dev/hda2 1 Gig /var
/dev/hda3 512 Megs swap
/dev/hda4 remainder of HD /
Here is my config. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Ryan
P.S. also, why did autoyast put in the <crypt> tags and can I take them
out? Thanks again!
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<device>/dev/hda</device>
<initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<crypt>twofish256</crypt>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
false
<mount>/boot</mount>
131
<size>30M</size>
</partition>
<partition>
<crypt>twofish256</crypt>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
false
<mount>swap</mount>
130
<size>512M</size>
</partition>
<partition>
<crypt>twofish256</crypt>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
false
<mount>/var</mount>
131
<size>1G</size>
</partition>
<partition>
<crypt>twofish256</crypt>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">true</format>
false
<mount>/</mount>
131
<size>max</size>
</partition>
</partitions>
<use>all</use>
</drive>
</partitioning>
