> Don't get your hopes up.. I am not a dev, just a user like yourself, > and I haven't done much with partitioning in over 3 years. but maybe > better than nothing.
I welcome any help I can get. :) >> The partitioning scheme in question involves a bunch of workstations >> with two drives, one larger than the other. > > How consistent across workstations? > > Like are they all 100g, 500g? > > or some like that and some 250g,1t > > or each one pretty much different? Two configurations: 1) 1x 160GB primary drive, 1x 1TB secondary drive 2) 1x 300GB primary drive, 1x 1TB secondary drive For testing, I've been using a workstation with the 160GB drive, as I figure if it works on that one, it will work on the others. <snip> >> The partitioning scheme I want is fairly simple, but a key piece of it >> is that the first (smaller) drive has a (vfat) utility partition on it >> that needs to stay and while Kickstart will allow me the option of >> wiping all the Linux partitions, it seems to be confused by the second >> disk and still asks me which partitioning method to use (Guided or >> Manual) and doesn’t partition the drive. I tried preseeding the option >> indicated in the debug log (init_automatically_partition) using >> ‘biggest_free’ but that just seems to land me in an infinite loop >> instead of actually partitioning /dev/sda. > > File a bug report. Will do <snip> >> Lastly, I thought I might just work around this problem by using >> early_command and late_command, but apparently fdisk and sfdisk are >> not on the Alternate install CD any more. Is there any way these can >> be put back on? >> > > Not sure about the alt cd - I pxe boot the net installer. I just checked, > fdisk and sfdisk are available. They seem to be missing from the alternate 12.04.2 CD, which is what I'm basing this off of. > > details on my pxe setup: > https://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/tree/master/setup/pxe > > if the alt disk partitions disks, there has to be something. It uses partman, which doesn't seem to support what I want. > > pretty sure this is a bad path, but you can also install stuff at > install time - like I do: > > anna-install openssh-server-udeb Interesting idea, though seems much more work just to make partitioning work properly. Maybe as a last resort? :) Thank you for the response! -Roman -- Ubuntu-installer mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-installer
