On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Carl Riches wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, rpjday wrote: > > > > > in aid of designing good ks docs, anyone got a *good* example for > > a sample %pre section? the red hat course rh133 shows the example: > > > > %pre > > mknod /tmp/hda > > dd if=/mnt/source/pub/mbr.img of=/tmp/hda > > > > which will create disk partitions simply by dumping a pre-configured MBR > > with partition table to the hard disk. while this may be a valid example, > > will it adequately demonstrate what the %pre section might be used for, > > as opposed to the %post section? > > > > anyone got better examples for %pre? > > > > Here's what we use to partition a 9GB SCSI disk prior to installation so > that we get the disk layout we want. thanks, that's a good example since, as far as i know (someone please correct me if i'm wrong), there is no way to lay out partitions precisely at particular locations and be able to create explicit extended and/or logical partitions using the standard "part" directives, is there? you're pretty much reduced to using fdisk in the %pre section, no? rday
