On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, pierre-yves.verdon wrote: > > below is my ks.cfg, i've try to do as in your mail but i can't manage to > make it work. > http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/kickstart-list/msg01127.html > but i wonder how i could specify which mount point is for > /dev/ida/c0d0p1 ? It is up to you to define what filesystem (/, /usr, /home, etc.) is mounted on which partition. You define this in the ks.cfg preamble. > i also don't have specified "part <mntpoint> --size <size>" because i've > supposed that kickstart will try to do another fdisk, isn't it? > No, because you will have already partitioned the disk in %pre and you don't tell ks.cfg to zero the partition table. > well actually the kickstart installation stop after an output "loading > module cpqarray" and then print "can not open device c0d0". > if i switch to the console, the direcory /dev/ida and the device c0d0 > have been created, but if i do "fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0" i get the same > error "can not open device c0d0". > if i do "lsmod" no cpqarray module have been loaded Have you done a manual installation to verify that the name of your device? Is it really a cpqarray device? > > actually i don't have tried to change the kernel src.rpm as say daniel > wittenberg > > > the file ks.cfg: > > auth --enablemd5 --useshadow > cdrom > keyboard us > lang en_US > lilo --location mbr > > mouse genericps/2 > rootpw mypassword > timezone MET > %packages > @ Base > %pre > mkdir /dev/ida > mknod /dev/ida/c0d0 b 72 0 > chmod 660 /dev/ida/c0d0 > echo | fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 <<EOF > n > p > 1 > > +256M > t > 1 > 82 > n > p > 2 > > > w > EOF > It looks like you are making one 256MB partition (/dev/ida/c0d0p1) using the default start cylinder and changing it to type LINUX SWAP. You then start to make a second partition. Are you trying to make the second partition start at the default location (end of /dev/ida/c0d0p1) and fill the rest of the disk? My tack was different. I explicitly stated the start and end cylinders of each partition. I feel that is is important to ensure that everything happens the way I want it to happen. I got this information by first doing a manual installation of the operating system, using fdisk to format the disk. I made sure to _not_ erase and/or overwrite the "Compaq Diagnostics" partition (/dev/ida/c0d0p3, but the first ten cylinders of the disk). 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
