On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Vilius Puidokas wrote:
> 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:
--onpart only works if the partitions already exists - you can't create
new ones with it.
>
> 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?
You really should use a small /boot partition to get around this. Make a
/boot partition sized ~20MB -> it'll always end up being the first
partition, the order of the other partitions doesn't really matter.
- Panu -
> >
> > - 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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