There are some suggestions on preserving an existing windows partition here:
http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/TipWindowsAndLinux On 9/27/07, Marcelo Tomim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Oscar Users, > > In our lab, we're setting up a 16 machine Oscar cluster with fedora core 5. > The installation went all right until the disk partitioning stage. At first, > we lost the partition table of a couple nodes, trying to make the autoinstall > script not touch the windows partition. In the end, we got a node properly > set up, but with a completely reformatted hard drive ( i.e. windows > completely gone! ). > > How can we make the auto install not touch the windows partion ? > Each node has a 80GB hard drive with only on partition /dev/sda1 of 40GB. The > rest is unformatted. The idea is to keep /dev/sda1 untouched during node > autoinstallation and creating /dev/sda2 where linux will reside. > > Any ideas would be very much appreciated. > > Regards, > Marcelo Tomim. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
