Re: kickstarting a dual boot system

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 14:21, Chris Rouch wrote:
> 
> forrestx taylor intel com said:
> > Why do you put the /windows/c there at all?  If it is ntfs, you won't be able
> > to mount it without some hacking, so why not leave it off?  You could also add
> > an entry in the %post section to add an entry in /etc/fstab for the vfat
> > entry(ies).  That way you don't have to put them in the partitioning table.
> 
> > I don't think that you can force anaconda to use only logical partitions. It
> > also looks like you forgot the swap partition. 
> 
> It's there so that anaconda doesn't use it for anything else. All I really 
> want is for redhat to end up on unused parts of the disk and not overwrite 
> the windows partitions. And, yes you're right about the swap partition - I 
> cut and pasted too few lines.

If you use clearpart --linux as opposed to clearpart --all, then only
Linux native partitions are removed.

Cheers,

Jeremy