On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Erik Williamson wrote: > Hi Carl, > > You're on the right track - I think what you want to do is this though: > > echo | fdisk /tmp/sda <<EOF > n > p > 2 > 5 > +256M > w > EOF > > All this says is "pipe all of the following up until you see 'EOF' info fdisk" This didn't work. I still get the message: Unable to open /tmp/sda or Unable to open /dev/sda depending on which device I put in the fdisk command (above). How can I force the %pre section to see the device? Carl Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Randolph R. Russell wrote: > > > >> --onpart conflicts with --clearpart. In order to use --onpart, > >> the partition must already exist. When you specify --clearpart, it clears > >> the partition table, so the partition can't exist! Ditch the --clearpart, > >> use fdisk in the %pre section, and achieve partitioning nirvana. > >> > > > > I am still in partitioning purgatory. No, make that hell. fdisk is > > unable to mount or use the disk drive in a %pre section and the kickstart > > installation fails. Here is my %pre section: > > > > # P R E - I N S T A L L A T I O N C O M M A N D S > > %pre > > > > # partition the disk > > fdisk /tmp/sda > > n > > p > > 2 > > 5 > > +256M > > w > > > > Here is the anaconda dump from this: > > > > Traceback (innermost last): > > File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? > > intf.run(todo, test = test) > > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run > > rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) > > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/partitioning_text.py", line 134, in __call__ > > todo.lilo.allowLiloLocationConfig(todo.fstab) > > File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/lilo.py", line 124, in allowLiloLocationConfig > > if bootDevice[0:2] == "md": > > TypeError: unsliceable object > > > > Local variables in innermost frame: > > fstab: <fstab.NewtFstab instance at 8199cd8> > > self: <lilo.LiloConfiguration instance at 82b36e8> > > bootDevice: None > > > > ToDo object: > > (itodo > > ToDo > > p1 > > (dp2 > > S'method' > > p3 > > (iimage > > CdromInstallMethod > > p4 > > (dp5 > > S'progressWindow' > > p6 > > > > <failed> > > > > Here are the messages at the end of console #3: > > > > Unable to open /tmp/sda > > /tmp/ks-script: n: command not found > > /tmp/ks-script: p: command not found > > /tmp/ks-script: 2: command not found > > /tmp/ks-script: 5: command not found > > /tmp/ks-script: +256: command not found > > /tmp/ks-script: w: command not found > > > > The disk partitioning also fails when I change the fdisk command from: > > > > fdisk /tmp/sda > > > > to > > > > fdisk /dev/sda > > > > in the same manner as above. Is this because there is no SCSI device > > driver yet? I have the following in my kickstart command list: > > > > # D E V I C E S P E C I F I C A T I O N > > device scsi aic7xxx > > > > All of this begs the question: > > > > Why does the automatic disk partitioning automagically partition the > > disk in order largest to smallest, and not in the order given in the > > ks.cfg file? > > > > All of this is making my job harder to do. I've spent days trying to get > > this to work properly. I have to use kickstart because this machine > > _cannot_ > > install from the CDs. That's the way Dell made it and I'm stuck with it. > > Dell's default disk partitioning scheme is wrong for the way this machine > > will be used, so I have to muck with this part of the ks.cfg file. > > > > So, how do I make this work? > > > > Thanks, > > Carl G. Riches > > Software Engineer > > Department of Mathematics > > Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 > > University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 > > Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > -- > Erik Williamson erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > System Administration & Software Support Tel: (403) 220-3541 > Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary Fax: (403) 220-6786 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
