From: "Michael Tautschnig" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:43 PM
Hmm, setup-storage does have a man page, but it may be hard to distill
that
particular aspect. I'll try to produce a suitable config below. I'm not
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sure about the sizes, made a guess there.
Yeah, thanks. I wasn't sure how to create an extended partition. Probably my
ignorance of what an extended partition actually is. I'm kind of a
partitioning monkey, I don't understand it but I know what to type to make
it work. And I couldn't just experiment because I still have that problem I
asked about last week where it preserves the Windows 7 partition but Windows
7 won't boot. I found out that it happens only when *I* install Windows 7
and then do an FAI install. I'm installing Windows 7 via an unattended.xml
answer file. If someone else installs Win7 by just popping a CD in and
answering all the questions, it works. So I must be doing something in my
unattended Win7 install that setup-storage doesn't like. But that's why I
couldn't experiment, I can't keep asking people to re-install Win7 for me.
Once I get everything else fixed, I'm going to get back to that problem with
saving my own Win7 install.
disk_config sda preserve_always:1
primary - 0 - -
logical / 35G ext3 rw,noatime,errors=3Dremount-ro
logical swap 1500M swap rw =20
That seems to have done the trick. I made the range for the root partition
20G-500G hoping that will make it take up whatever is left after preserving
the ntfs partition and swap. We'll see, I'm doing an install now.
A couple of tips (for the archive, I'm sure everyone on this list already
knows this stuff)....
1. A good way to test a new setup-storage config is to make a file named for
your test machine. My test machine has hostname vv507g so I made my test
setup-storage config vv507g. That way the rest of my installs use the old
config files while I'm working on a new one.
2. You can run setup-storage at the command line to test your config files:
# setup-storage -d -f vv507g
This is safe. It doesn't do anything unless you pass the -x flag.
