Help!!! Windows partitions getting clobbered!!!....

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "s" == seberino  <seberino at spawar.navy.mil> writes:

s> It appears 'clearpart' is the Kickstart switch to prevent Windows
s> partitions from getting blasted when "kickstarting" Fedora Core 3.

clearpart tells kickstart how to clear the partition table.

s> I may not be using clearpart correctly (if that is even the right
s> way?) because I'm blowing away Windows partitions!!

Well, the docs seem pretty clear:

clearpart (optional)

    Removes partitions from the system, prior to creation of new
    partitions. By default, no partitions are removed. 

--all

    Erases all partitions from the system.

[...]

--linux

    Erases all Linux partitions.

--none (default)

    Do not remove any partitions.

(from
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
)

So "clearpart --linux" should do the trick to erase existing Linux
partitions but keep others.

 - J<