KS won't partition drives

[Blair Lowe]

Hi It worked:

So create all the nodes then:

mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1
mknod /dev/hda2 b 3 2
mknod /dev/hda3 b 3 3
mknod /dev/hda4 b 3 4
mknod /dev/hda5 b 3 5
mknod /dev/hda6 b 3 6
mknod /dev/hda7 b 3 7
mknod /dev/hda8 b 3 8
mknod /dev/hda9 b 3 9
mknod /dev/hdb b 3 0
mknod /dev/hdb1 b 3 1
mknod /dev/hdb2 b 3 2
mknod /dev/hdb3 b 3 3
mknod /dev/hdb4 b 3 4
mknod /dev/hdb5 b 3 5
mknod /dev/hdb6 b 3 6
mknod /dev/hdb7 b 3 7
mknod /dev/hdb8 b 3 8
mknod /dev/hdb9 b 3 9

Then run fdisk on /dev/hda, then run fdisk on /dev/hdb.

Your earlier email had no ... in it so I thought that I only had to
create the major nodes (thus the confusion I think).

Here is the fdisk script that worked!

fdisk /dev/hda <<!EOF
d
1

d
2

d
3

d
4

n
p
1
1
32

a
1

t
1
fd

n
p
2
33
797

t
2
fd

n
p
3
798
1434

t
3
fd

n
e
4
1435
24792

t
4
f

n
1435
1695

t
5
fd

n
1696
1822

t
6
fd

n
1823
24792

t
7
fd

w

q

!EOF

fdisk /dev/hdb <<!EOF
d
1

d
2

d
3

d
4

n
p
1
1
32

a
1

t
1
fd

n
p
2
33
797

t
2
fd

n
p
3
798
1434

t
3
fd

n
e
4
1435
24792

t
4
f

n
1435
1695

t
5
fd

n
1696
1822

t
6
fd

n
1823
24792

t
7
fd

w

q

!EOF




On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:30, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Blair Lowe wrote:
> 
> >I'm working on the mknod: the hda one succeeded, but my confusion is
> >that /dev/hda1 would be the first partition of the one drive, and hdb
> >would be the second ide drive, so why would you go:
> >
> >mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1
> >
> >for hdb????
> 
> Erm, that's creating hda1, not hdb. The "b" in the command above is
> short for "block", i.e. a block (not a character) device.
> 
> Ignoring kickstart/anaconda, and just looking at my local RedHat system:
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/hda{,1,2,3,4,5} /dev/hdb{,1,2,3,4,5}
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   0 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   1 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda1
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   2 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda2
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   3 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda3
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   4 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda4
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   5 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda5
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  64 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  65 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb1
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  66 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb2
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  67 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb3
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  68 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb4
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  69 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb5
> 
> Those are the major and minor node numbers used by Linux; promise, I
> didn't make them up :)
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil
> 
> 
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