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Nils Olav Fossum schrieb: > onsdag 14. juni 2006, 17:38, skrev Peter Huber: >>> this will do only on blank drives, and according to this >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-07/msg00030.html >> as I see here, parted uses /proc/ide/hda/settings to overwrite the >> values returned by HDIO_GETGEO. > > My understanding: > ..and this is what parted uses to set the geometry when there is a blank disk. > > So now I wonder what would happen if we do not blank the drive..?? > ..will parted read geometry from the drive??.. > > Yes. This seems to be the main problem, since any former software could have formatted the disk it's way. According to Patrick, parted uses the partition table to get some informations. Somebody suggested recently (sorry, don't remember who) to start partitioning and installing XP manually while booting from original win*** CD, so that after this unattended works properly. What we could do here is getting an bootsector from this manual install on this specific device, save it then - having booted Knoppix or other live CD - eg. with dd if=/dev/sda of=mybootsec count=1 and put this file to /z/site/mybootsec When installing with unattended, throw it with dd if=/z/site/mybootsec of=/dev/sda on the disk before parted is first time started (you know, it's the same as erasing all data on the disk, so be careful). Just an idea. Falko -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRJFHw4kcY98goEs/AQJHTwf/WFDKfgA+wKU878aNis8Gb+5u7GCOR/QD mUjHwsMPnbV8+5S2JwyBzP+7NRBo+deicCiBL1jfUDv3eqQd6581vnsviKeBC2u2 xo9zqtwMsG7Ezjh44rjyly2uo2TSd+5xkIsLY0uZ7MYOFqyMr3m00mnqBJXeOn6a Y53WU8XH95LQDg33SRPz+MHHPPn2IAnmtfjUIgs+kncddVCCqiydX5MUU4yGNkET LA1N11W1eTowHYJEQJTzwpDUAE0Z5fccpvwSrlgEDdiXZLz/eFwPlVECiZ4juqyb 4IYnNEAhDkeA0dsDqz5HM634QJnYPLfQgYs9USsjmuw+X9AwX2/EOw== =Npdd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
