On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, pierre-yves.verdon wrote: > > > Did you try setting up ryou dl360 by hand first to determine the values to > > put into the fdisk command in your %pre section? If so, can you show us > > your the system config and %pre sections of your ks.cfg file? > http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/kickstart-list/msg01127.html > > i apologize, i don't understand the meaning of "echo |" in your %pre > section, could you explain > > > > %pre > > # create the disk device > mkdir /dev/ida > mknod /dev/ida/c0d0 b 72 0 > mknod 660 /dev/ida/c0d0 > > # partition the disk > # don't erase existing Compaq diagnostics partition > echo | fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 <<EOF this line takes each of the following lines (up to but not including the line "EOF") and echoes it to the fdisk command. What you see in each line is a command or argument to the fdisk command. That is, - a line will tell fdisk to create a new partition - the next line will tell fdisk what partition to create - the next line will tell fdisk where the partition is to start - the next line will tell fdisk how big to make the partition and so on. There are also lines to create a swap partition and to write out the partition table changes. I determined the fdisk commands and arguments (sizes, etc.) by doing one manual installation of a system and writing down every fdisk command. I then used that information to create my disk partitioning command in the kickstart %pre section. 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
