Hi All, Thanks for all your responses. As to most of my problems with kickstart, it turned out to be a user error, and had nothing to do with the number of partitions. Basically, if you add up all the "sizes" from below, it's about 76.5GB, and the disk is supposed to be a 80GB disk. But in reality, the disk is only 76GB and I was allocating about .5 GB too much. So when I dropped the size of /usr/local down to 20GB, kickstart works fine. ---------- snippit from ks.cfg ----------- part / --size 2000 part swap --size 2048 part /var --size 2500 part /export/home --size 20000 part /usr/solarislocal --size 25000 part /usr/local --size 25000 --grow --maxsize 1000000 Thanks to everyone for helping me find my blunder. Cheryl On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 01:15:10PM -0500, Jeff Lane wrote: > > did you try it without the --maxsize 100000 option on the last partition? > > Dont know for sure, but perhaps that is causing grief (i.e. getting > written before the solarislocal partition, thus making the solarislocal > partition unwritable... > > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Cheryl L. Southard wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Since 80 GB disks are now cheeply available, we decided to get one for > > our new Linux server. I've been using kickstart to configure these things > > and I need 6 partitions on one disk. I can get 5 on a disk, but as soon > > as I add the 6th, kickstart and anaconda barfs on me when attempting > > to layout and format the disk. Does anyone have any clues as to why > > this happens? > > > > Enclosed is my ks.cfg file. Note, that this config file works, but if I > > uncomment the line "part /usr/solarislocal --size 25000", it will barf. > > > > I can regenerate and send a list of error messages if anyone is > > interested. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Cheryl > > > > -- > Jeffrey Lane, RHCX, EMT > > Red Hat, Inc. 919-547-0012 > www.redhat.com/support > > In memory of all victims of the Trade Center attack. > > and especially in memory of all Firefighters, LEOs and EMTs > who paid the ultimate sacrifice during this troubles time so > that others may live. God Speed my Brothers and Sisters. > > > > > --__--__-- -- Cheryl Southard cld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
