hi,
i've been folowing kickstart for a while lately..
according to RH the bug with partitioning was fixed (or at least bug
was closed on bugzilla), by adding --onpart. I checked installation code
(one of the pre6.2) it doesn't look like --onpart can solve this
problem:
if onPart:
self.addToFstab(extra[0], onPart)
else:
self.addNewPartition(extra[0], size, maxSize, grow, device)
i assume it modifies fstab in case you would like to use already
existing partitions.
also i noticed --ondisk in the source, which should do the right
thing, but using it resulted into '--ondisk: unknown option'. i tried
going deeper into code, but got stuck.
couldn't check if it was changed on 6.2, cause here kickstart crashes in
doMouse section..
my little workaround for this bug:
making hda1 appear as largest.
part / --size 250 ; i'm making it largest
part /var --size 100
part swap --size 100
part /swapfil --size 100
part /usr --size 200 --grow --maxsize 800
part /tmp --size 100
part /export --size 200 --grow --maxsize 15000
now, hda1 is /
the trick is that sorting by size is based on --size (doesn't look at
--grow/--maxsize), so you could specify sizes you want this way.
for even more fun, manipulating your disk this way you'll loose
accuracy on sizes, there was a bug reported on --maxsize.
versions used 6.1, 6.1.92
vil.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I like the kickstart tool very much - but I searched in vain
> in the archive for the following problem:
>
> - kickstart sorts the partitions according size. It starts
> with the largest one. So I have to repartion afterwards to
> boot the machine :-(
> How can I partition in the order I put into the Kickstart file?
>
> - postinstall commands always fail, because a /bin/sh command is
> not found.
>
> I use redhat 6.1 (Halloween Distribution) kernel 2.2.13-12
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Gerd
>
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