We have done some magic partitioning with kickstart. check out: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~erik/BOTD/partitioning/index.html Works great on 7.3, haven't done anything on 8.0 or 9 so far. deb d e b b i e m a z u r e k mazurekd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Matt Fahrner wrote: > Does anyone know if there's a way, say in the "%pre" to run something > that could do more customized partitioning than what is supplied by > generic "kickstart". For instance, perhaps running a Perl script that > in turn runs "fdisk"? > > The reason I ask is because while the kickstart config does offer > quite a few options, there are a number of things we'd like to do that > it can't handle. For instance, we'd like to clear all but one > partition or make a very, very, smart program to auto-partition our > disks (we have such a wide range, 4 gig to 20 gig, that using "--grow" > isn't quite sufficient). > > Anyone done this before? Is it feasible? > > Thanks in advance, > > - Matt > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Matt Fahrner 2 South Park St. > Manager of Networking Willis House > Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Lebanon, N.H. 03766 > TEL: (603) 448-4100 xt 5150 USA > FAX: (603) 443-6190 Matt.Fahrner@xxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
