Re: Dynamic partitioning in kickstart

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Hi,

We have a similar situation, so we made a script that does it based on
percentages of the partitions.  You can take a look at the stuff here.
Its pretty customized to our situation, but it might help get you
started.

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~erik/BOTD/partitioning/index.html

cheers
debbie

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:39, Gopi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I am new to this list. 
>   
>   I am using kickstart feature of redhat Linux for my project, i have
>   requirement which i don't find it in kickstart documentation. so i am
> posting
>   that to this list.
> 
>   My question is, I will be installing redhat Linux in various machines
> having
>   different hard disk capacity starting from 2GB to 40 GB and i would
> like to
>   have set of partitions in the hard disk (which is not redhat
> standard). my
>   pattern is something of 4 partitions namely,
>     primary partition
>         secondary partition
>         data partition
>         swap
>  is there any way i can automate this in kickstart that based on the
> size of
>  hard disk it should allocate a percentage of hard disk size to each
> partition.
>  for example 40% each for primary and secondary 15% for data 5% for swap
> like
>  that.
> 
>  Is this achievable in kickstart? if so how? i have read about %include
> file
>  option in kickstart but i don't know whether it can solve the problem.
> 
>  Kindly help me in this. If this is already discussed kindly let me in
> which
>  archive i can find more info about that.
> 
>  Thanks,
>  Regards,
>  S.Gopi
> 
> 
> 
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