KS won't partition drives

[johnpaul]

hi

i tried the same thing for creating four partition, but in the kickstart
installer code it has written such a way to handle only for the primary
partitions

i have not looked in the source code
if you find that please update me to

most probably it will be taken care by the loader.c of anaconda

John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Weston" <sweston at forbin.com>
To: "'Discussion list about Kickstart'" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:25 PM
Subject: RE: KS won't partition drives


> Thanks. So I guess what we have to use is /boot / and swap then huh? Is
> there any other way to work around this?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: johnpaul [mailto:johnpaulmp at amiindia.co.in]
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 9:55 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: KS won't partition drives
>
>
> hi
>
> The problem here is
> you cannot ask the kernel to make more partitions than the first three
> primary partitions
> if the partitioning no is less than or equal to 3 then it will be done
> automatically
>
> also
> i have a slight different opinion for what james has written
> actually we can do software raid for swap also
>
> regards
> John
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Weston" <sweston at forbin.com>
> To: <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:32 PM
> Subject: KS won't partition drives
>
>
> > Can you see why when trying to do the ks install that it doesn't
partition
> > the drives accordingly? It wants to do it the normal way and asks me for
> > server/workstation/custom setup. Did I miss something here?
> >
> > I boot from cd using ks.cfg
> >
> >
> > #Generated by Kickstart Configurator
> > #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T
> > #System language
> > lang en_US
> > #Language modules to install
> > langsupport en_US
> > #System keyboard
> > keyboard us
> > #System mouse
> > mouse genericwheelps/2
> > #Sytem timezone
> > timezone America/Chicago
> > #Root password
> > rootpw --iscrypted
> > #Reboot after installation
> > reboot
> > #Install OS instead of upgrade
> > install
> > #Use CDROM installation media
> > cdrom
> > #System bootloader configuration
> > bootloader --location=mbr
> > #Clear the Master Boot Record
> > zerombr yes
> > #Partition clearing information
> > clearpart --all --initlabel
> > #Disk partitioning information
> > part raid.01 --size 100 --ondisk hda
> > part raid.02 --size 1000 --ondisk hda
> > part raid.03 --size 3000 --ondisk hda
> > part raid.04 --size 10000 --ondisk hda
> > part raid.05 --size 6000 --ondisk hda
> > part raid.06 --size 1 --grow --ondisk hda
> > part raid.07 --size 100 --ondisk hdc
> > part raid.08 --size 1000 --ondisk hdc
> > part raid.09 --size 3000 --ondisk hdc
> > part raid.10 --size 10000 --ondisk hdc
> > part raid.11 --size 6000 --ondisk hdc
> > part raid.12 --size 1 --grow --ondisk hdc
> > raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext3 raid.01 raid.07
> > raid swap --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype swap raid.02 raid.08
> > raid / --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.09
> > raid /var --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 raid.04 raid.10
> > raid /usr --level=1 --device=md4 --fstype ext3 raid.05 raid.11
> > raid /home --level=1 --device=md5 --fstype ext3 raid.06 raid.12
> > #System authorization infomation
> > auth --useshadow --enablemd5
> > #Network information
> > network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0
> > #Firewall configuration
> > firewall --disabled
> > #Do not configure XWindows
> > skipx
> > #Package install information
> > %packages --resolvedeps
> > @ Server Configuration Tools
> > @ Administration Tools
> > @ System Tools
> >
> >
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