Might be worth verifying that your virtual disk is 11.1gb or larger. I think the default virtual disk size is 4gb. Gordon Keegan -----Original Message----- From: Ingo Jochim [mailto:i.jochim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:01 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: partitions on scsi and ide different ? On an interactive installation using an IDE drive I get all the right partitions created and displayed in the gui. If I use a SCSI drive it doesn't work at all. I'm doing all these test on vmware in a virtual machine. Is there a different setup in the kickstart script for IDE and SCSI ? My kickstart script looks like: ..... ..... #Use interactive kickstart installation method interactive #Install OS instead of upgrade install #installation media cdrom #System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr #Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr yes #Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel #Disk partitioning information part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 part / --fstype ext3 --size=5000 part /home --fstype ext3 --size=5000 part swap --size=1000 part /extern --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow ..... .....