Installer chokes on system with existing Windows

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Hi Ray,

I had exactly the same problem, but the following two kickstart options
helped me out:

#Any invalid partition tables found on disks are initialized.
#This will destroy all of the contents of disks with invalid partition
tables
zerombr yes

#Erase all partitions
clearpart --all

Sander Poelwijk.

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Hi all, trying to do a kickstart install onto a system which already
> has Windows XP on it.  One drive with three 80GB partitions.  The
> first two is NTFS and the last 80GB partition is unused.
>
> The installer starts up fine, but as soon as I hit 'next' on the first
> page to where the disk layout review page should be I get the following
> error:
>
>   Could not allocate requested partitions:
>
>   Unsatisfied partition request
>   New Part request -- mountpoint: None uniqueID: 6
>     type: physical volume (LVM)  format: 1 badblocks: None
>     device: None drive: ['sda'] primary: None
>     size: 0 grow: 1 maxsize: None
>     start: None  end: None  migrate: None  origfstype: None.
>
>   Press 'OK' to reboot your system
>
> I've tried combinations of autopart, zerombr and bootloader in my KS
> file to no avail.  I don't want to use clearpart as it'll wipe out my
> Windows partitions.
>
> If I just do a regular non-KS install it doesn't hang here and I can
> set up my partitions preserving my Windows ones.
>
> Here is the relevant portion of the KS file I'm using:
>
>   install
>   nfs --server=10.49.6.46 --dir=/install/RHEL4/es/update4
>   interactive
>   lang en_US.UTF-8
>   langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8
>   keyboard us
>   xconfig --startxonboot --resolution=800x600 --depth 16 --defaultdesktop=GNOME
>   %include /tmp/network.ks
>   rootpw --iscrypted $1$SXuw6/KM$xmV2mmVR3g2HNBmENHuSR.
>   firewall --disabled
>   selinux --disabled
>   firstboot --disable
>   authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
>   timezone America/Los_Angeles
>   bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet"
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Ray
>
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