Paul Armor wrote:
Hi,
we're working on headless installation of a large number of computers.
We're trying to install FC4, which I beleive is using anaconda 10.2.1.
These systems can be in either of two states:
Disk is already partioned, with one partition containing data we want to
keep.
Disk is "blank", and we want to repartition in a particular way.
Several of us have poked around but not been able to put together a
method by which we can do this within anaconda purely. I'm wondering if
anyone could suggest a means by which we could do this.
Years ago, I had some success partitioning in %pre by piping commands
into fdisk. I expect it wouldn't be too difficult to do so now.
It might be a little trickier if you want to use /dev/hda1 for some,
/dev/hda2 for others, but I _think_ you can generate some ks fragment(s)
and then %include them; if so then you can easily generate the required
partition layout in shell script and then include it further down in the
ks file.
I believe it also was possible (before include was invented) to simply
rewrite the ks file in /tmp.
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Cheers
John
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