On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 14:57 -0500, David Becker wrote: > I am trying to use Rocks's anaconda to install on a Xen virtual > machine. This fails when anaconda does not detect the existing > disk partitions. I would not expect it to detect the xen virtual block > device since there is no PCI or IDE bus. The hda1 and hda2 partitions > exist and have the same major/minor numbers as an IDE disk. It's not going to work. anaconda needs to be able to detect devices to use them to install to/from. Otherwise, there's no way to be able to catch people trying to install to non-existent devices. Not to mention the bizarreness that is the fact that you only get the partitions instead of the whole disk. Jeremy