Re: One of biospart or partition options must be specified

[Chris Lumens <clumens redhat com>]

> This seems to be a bug, but I don't find a discussion of it.
> 
> When specifying a media location as hard disk, the following syntax has 
> worked in the past:
> 
> # Use hard drive installation media
> harddrive --dir=/ --partition=sdb2
> 
> In fact, those lines were generated by the new system-config-kickstart.

Yeah, this was filed as 242942 and is fixed in CVS.  For systems that
have already been installed, you can grab pykickstart-1.2 out of devel
and use that.  Unfortunately, that doesn't help you for doing new
installs.

> However, if you try to run system-config-kickstart against a file it 
> just created with these lines in it, you get a pop up with this message:
> 
> "One of biospart or partition options must be specified"
> 
> Obviously, the biospart is a new key word, but the check for the new key 
> word broke the old one! :)

It's actually fairly old.  The check's just broken.

> Folks are asking for F7 installs, but this is a show stopper, since 
> anaconda errors out over this.

We've been talking about releasing an updates.img for common install
problems.  This looks like a good one to add to that image, since it's
probably going to affect a fair number of people.

Watch the bug I listed above, which is where I'll leave some sort of
comment if we do an updates.img for this (and other issues).

- Chris