Re: Kickstart partition question

[Florian Festi <festifn rupert informatik uni-stuttgart de>]

> Is it possible to specify which partition a mount point should be allocated to?
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> I have a number of machines that I need to re-kickstart, and they need to have a partition on them to allow them to "rekickstart" themselves (via a hard drive kickstart).  After doing some tests, i found a couple of machines (identical hardware) that put this partition in different places (some put it on /dev/hda5 and others on /dev/hda6).  I used the exact same kickstart floppy to set up the partitions.
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> Once the partitions are created, I can then specify the partition, but if there are no pre-existing partitions (or the partition table isn't what I want), I can't specify the --onpart command.
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> Just thinking out loud, would I be able to use "parted" before I kickstarted to partition it the way I wanted it and then kickstart it using the --onpart command...

perhaps you can do this in the %pre section, perhaps using sfdisc that is
part of the installation image since 7.2 or 7.3 I think.

	cu

		Florian Festi