Lately I have been getting some replacement disks which either have no pre-existing partitions on them or have bad pre-existing partitions from earlier versions of linux. I am trying to put a sfdisk command in the %pre section of my kickstart. something like: sfdisk /tmp/hda << EOD 0 3000 L 3001 2000 S 5002 EOD -------------- the kickstart file can find the sfdisk command, but it gives me the error message that /tmp/hda doesn't exist...and sure enough, when I add an "ls /tmp" statement for debugging purposes, it doesn't exist. My question is--is there any way to run an "sfdisk" command in the %pre section of kickstart and let it actually find and do something to the disks? I know that in theory the clearpart --drives hda command in kickstart should clear out the partitions on the hda drive and help me to start fresh, but in fact it clears out all partitions, whether on hda or not. Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm (630) 840-8525 timm@xxxxxxxx http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division/Core Support Services Dept. Assistant Group Leader, Scientific Computing Support Group Lead of Computing Farms Team
