Re: dual booting kickstart

[Samuel Flory <sflory rackable com>]

Stephen Mah wrote:

> I have a kickstart file that clears all the partitions on a hard-drive 
> and installs RH automatically.
>
> I have a few users that still need to run Windows.
>
> I made some modifications to the kickstart file to allow 
> semi-interactive installs.
>
> I basically remarked the following:
> #clearpart --all --initlabel
> #part /boot --size 75
> #part swap --recommended
> #part swap --size 500
> #part /tmp --size 512
> #part / --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow
>
> This works on systems with space left on the Windows D drive.
> I manually deleted the D drive and created the slices with FDISK 
> during the RH install screen.
>
> Any way to automate this with a %pre install script? Is there a way to 
> get fdisk to delete the partition with a single command? ie: delete 
> /dev/hda5


see "man parted".  

Or you can pipe the commands into fdisk.  Example:
echo "d
5

w
" |fdisk /dev/hda

> -thanks
>
>
>
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