Hi Jacques, Welcomes to the list!
Apologies for top-posting, I'm travelling atm and using a webmail interface which is limited. While preparing my kickstart script (used with ubuntu 8.10) I had a lot of problems with partitioning. I'm not sure some of the flags you are using work. Using trail and error, I came up with the following partitioning instructions clearpart --all --initlabel part swap --size 4096 --ondisk sda part / --fstype ext3 --size 10240 --ondisk sda part /scratch --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --ondisk sda which definitely work. You may want to start with those and tailor them to your requirements? Thanks, -stephen -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Farcy Sent: Mon 6/22/2009 9:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: my first post: kickstart installation and partitioning Hi to everyone, I work in a university in France, an actually i plan to realise automatic installation of ubuntu 9.04. I am using a kickstart file and scripts to do it, but i don't have the result i was expecting during the partitioning process. I have been looking at the forums since a few weeks, without success. I use the %pre section to calculate the size of the disk and the ram (this part works fine). For example on a computer of 40 Go and 512Mb of RAM, i make a file partition_table.cfg like this : clearpart --all --initlabel part swap --size 512 --asprimary part / --size grow --maxsize 16384 --fstype ext3 --asprimary part /home --size grow --fstype ext3 In the kickstart file,i write this at the partitioning section : bootloader --location=mbr zerombr yes %include partition_table.cfg But the installation process don't use the partition_table.cfg and in the log, partman is using autopartitioning with the all disk. I hope someone on this list could help me to achieve auto-installing. And sorry for my bad english writing ... Thanks in advance, Jacques-Olivier PS : I can send my complete kickstart file if needed -- Ubuntu-installer mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-installer -- Ubuntu-installer mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-installer
