On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 12:07, paulmc@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Is it possible to specify which partition a mount point should be allocated to? > > I have a number of machines that I need to re-kickstart, and they need to have a partition on them to allow them to "rekickstart" themselves (via a hard drive kickstart). After doing some tests, i found a couple of machines (identical hardware) that put this partition in different places (some put it on /dev/hda5 and others on /dev/hda6). I used the exact same kickstart floppy to set up the partitions. > > Once the partitions are created, I can then specify the partition, but if there are no pre-existing partitions (or the partition table isn't what I want), I can't specify the --onpart command. > > Just thinking out loud, would I be able to use "parted" before I kickstarted to partition it the way I wanted it and then kickstart it using the --onpart command... > > We do this, and you can do it too. Our method only works if the target systems have the same size disk drive (actually, we have two kickstart configurations because we have two disk drive sizes in our environment). When defining what filesystems go on which partition, we use this: # P A R T I T I O N S P E C I F I C A T I O N zerombr yes part / --onpart sda1 part /tmp --onpart sda5 part /usr --onpart sda6 part /home --onpart sda7 part /var --onpart sda8 part /opt --onpart sda9 part swap --onpart sda10 We then have a "%pre" section to partition the disk. Here is that section for a 9GB SCSI disk: # P R E - I N S T A L L A T I O N C O M M A N D S %pre # create the disk device mknod /dev/sda # partition the disk echo | fdisk /dev/sda <<EOF o w EOF echo | fdisk /dev/sda <<EOF n p 1 1 33 n e 2 34 2213 n l 34 66 n l 67 589 n l 590 851 n l 852 917 n l 918 983 n l 984 1114 n l 1115 2213 t 10 82 w EOF We had to manually partition a disk using "fdisk" to get the values above. You will need to do the same thing for your disk(s). -- 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
