Hi Thomas,
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:05:41 +0200
From: Thomas Mandl <Thomas.Mandl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
When i installed the machine for the first time i did a manual disk
layout and recorded the partition size/locaten and re-used this in the
automatic installation. THIS WAS THE FAULT!
part / --size 6666 ---> max. size of the / partition and this causes the
error. reserve some space (e.g. 8-16MB) and make this partition (or
others) only 6658MB large, then disc druid (or whatever is used during
anaconda installation) has some 'room' to allocate on correct cylinder
boundaries. The kickstart install will *silently* fail if your disc
layout is 'incorrect'. The interactive installation using fdisk or disc
druid will warn you in this case, and you can correct this problem, but
kickstart simply bails out.
I hope Red Hat will provide better ks installation features in the
future!
I had similar problems in the past, so I like to put the emphasis on the
last sentence. I was about to point to this problem when I read your first
mails, but your errors occured already before the partitioning starts.
Therefore I guessed that something else than sizes are wrong.
I wrote a perl sript which generate a ks.cfg from another config file.
This also calculates the partitions given the disk size and
a "distribution function". Here I had to lower the disksize somewhat to
that what I have determinded with fdisk.
Therefore the distribution function was convenient. If anybody is interested
I can send this meta-perl-kickstart-config generator...
Regards,
Gerd
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