Tirsdag 04 desember 2007 16:29, skrev Steffen Kaiser: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Nils Olav Fossum wrote: > > should we go for the parted version Mario is using as a first step? > > Frankly, I don't like parted. I find it "problematic" as it almost never > performs the first try as I want to.
Well, I can not disagree with that :-) My biggest problem is that parted often gets disk geometry wrong. And every time parted touches the disk the bloody thing will write what it believe disk geometry should be.. .grrr! > Also, "mkfs fat32" did never turn out > to work for me for the winnt.exe phase. > > Is the "mkfs fat32" function required for unattended? We do format to fat32 under dosemu and thats what the winnt.exe understands. So, no, we dont need it as long as we use dosemu Im really trying to get rid of dosemu, and have it working when theres a ready formatted fat32 partition to copy the files to. > If not, I'd strongly > suggest using sfdisk to non-interactively re-partition the hard drive. It > gives you full control over the partition table, however, you should > stick to cylinders when specifying the size. yes, sfdisk does support specifying disk geometry, .. .. I really need a native linux formatting tool that deliver fat32 also.. But, to get some work done now: Is the newest parted versions that bad? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
