Correct AutoYast control file setup?

11 Mar 2004

      Good day,

I am playing around with AutoYast2 in SuSE 9.0

I have a drive with 7 exsisting partitions - /dev/hda1-7
I do not want to create any partitions -- they are all created 
already. I just want to reuse some of them for a testing system.
I want to format partitions 2 and 6 with ext3, and reuse partition 3 
as swap without formating it.
I want to keep all the other partitions untouched (1,4-5,7). They 
contain data I want to keep (the production system).

Is this the way to do it in the autoinstall control file?:

<partitioning config:type="list">
  <drive>
    <device>/dev/hda</device>
    <partitions config:type="list">
      <partition>
        <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
        <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
        <filesystem  config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
        <mount>/boot</mount>
        2
      </partition>
      <partition>
        <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
        <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
        <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
        3
        <mount>swap</mount>
      </partition>
      <partition>
        <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
        <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
        <filesystem  config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
        <mount>/</mount>
        6
      </partition>
    </partitions>
  </drive>
</partitioning>

Or do I have to specifically specify something for the partitions I 
want kept untouched?

I have read the documentation for AutoYast, but am not 100% sure if I 
have it right, so I am asking here to avoid as many problems as 
possible before I push "The Big Red Button".

Best regards :o)

Johnny :o)

Correct AutoYast control file setup?

Johnny Ernst Nielsen