Re: One of biospart or partition options must be specified

[Phil Meyer <pmeyer themeyerfarm com>]

Chris Lumens wrote:
> > 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.
>   
Found it on the main download site, the mirrors I checked did not have 
it yet.  Thanks!
> > 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.
>
>   
Ok, new to me. :)
> > 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
>   

Thanks. 
I am generating my own images for installs with pungi, so the corrected 
package just might do it for me.  I will have to force it into the build 
using a local repository, but I think it will work.

Thanks again for a quick response.

On my F7 pungi build system, the 1.2 package seems to have corrected the 
problem.

Still waiting for my old slow server that houses my local repositories 
to run createrepo on the fedora (over 7000 packages) directory. :)