Hi Yan I will try to use the pre-install script. Or could I use a SLES9 installation engine to install SLES8. It seems to me by your formulation that SLES9 can format and partition the DASD? Regards Steen Torsdag 10 november 2005 19:16 skrev Yan Fitterer:
Hi Steen
Ok - bit of confusion here. I though your install was going through, but with an additional partition being created beyond dsadx1. The devices must be formated and partitioned, as YaST isn't capable (in SLES8) of doing it automatically.
1) I believe that you can do a z/VM format of the DASD devices as ECKD/Linux Disk Layout. In which case you can't have more than one partition, but apparently you can then use it from YaST without partitioning.
2) Alternatively, you should look into the autoyast pre-install script. That's the place you can do things like load the dasd module manually and do the required format and partitioning. The dasd tools should be on the initrd!
See the README file on top level of first install media for SLES8.
Best, Yan
On 10/11/2005 at 11:36:03, in message
<200511101236.03777.sjo@oncable.dk>,
Steen Bank Johnsen
wrote: Hi Yan
It never comes that far. During prepare of harddisks Yast annonces
that it
couldn't format /dev/dasda2. Then I abort the installation. Should I
always
make a dasdfmt and fdasd -a on my dasd after loading the dasd module
???? If
that the answer I still haven't unattended installation.
:-) Steen
Torsdag 10 november 2005 12:08 skrev du:
Hi Steen
Have tried the <initialize> didn't change anything. For the size
statement
didn't you mean max and not all?
I did. Sorry about that! Does it change anything?
The output from fdisk -l
I meant after autoyast has completed partitioning. I just wanted to
see
what the (wrong) result is.
Yan