> -----Original Message----- > From: Rebecca.R.Hepper@xxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:Rebecca.R.Hepper@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:06 PM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Problems partitioning 2 hard drives in the ks.cfg file > > > > > Hello All, > > > > I am having some problems with my partitioning. Below I > > pasted a portion > > of my ks.cfg file. When I kickstart, I get an error message > > that says "an > > error occurred trying to format / This problem is serious > > and the install > > can't continue". From reading messages on the mailing > > lists, it sounds > > like people don't have much luck with --onpart so I tried > > --ondisk and I > > added a "clearpart --all" line . > > > After clearpart --all, did you give your partition info like: part > /boot --size 16 --ondisk hda > > (No number after hda) What Redhat version are you using? > > I am using RedHat 7.1. My ks.cfg file looks like the > following....so I did > have numbers after the hda. > > clearpart --all > part /boot --size 16 --ondisk hda1 > part swap --size 512 --ondisk hda2 > part /usr --size 1000 --grow --maxsize 2000 --ondisk hda5 > part /usr/local --size 1000 --grow --maxsize 2000 --ondisk hda6 > part / --size 250 --ondisk hda7 > part /var --size 1000 --grow --maxsize 2000 --ondisk hda8 > part /home --size 1000 --grow --ondisk hda9 > part /fofdata --size 3000 --grow --ondisk hdb1 > > > I was under the impression that the following was true -- > hda1 = the first hard drive, primary partition 1 > hda2 = first hard drive, primary partition 2 > hda5 = first hard drive, logical partition 1 > etc > hdb1 = second hard drive, primary partition 1 This is true > > so, if I don't have numbers after the term hda, how do I specify the > primary and logical partitions? You cannot specify the partitions using --ondisk. --ondisk is only to tell it which disk to put it on, not which partition. If you use clearpart, all of the partitions will be blown away. If you have pre-existing partitions, you must use --onpart. I tried --onpart on 6.2, to no avail, but I have not yet tried it on 7.1. IIRC, you already tried --onpart? What errors did you receive, and what did your ks.cfg look like? Forrest
