On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Tonnet, Bryan wrote: >I've been trying to find a 'nice' way to preserve one of my partitions >on installation. Specifically, this is the Compaq diagnostics partition >on Proliant servers. You'll probably want to look at the (rather rusty looking) cpqlinux site: http://www.cpqlinux.com/f10.html >I noticed some traffic in the archives for this list, but the solutions >were fairly specific particular hardware. My kickstart needs to be >across a variety of [Compaq] platforms. Your script is one of several approaches. The one which appeals most to me, but I haven't implemented fully, is to put the logic in the network server, and have the kickstart file fetched and dynamically written with a CGI script, based on all available hardware/partition information gathered in a %pre script. Cheers, Phil