Noticing that your address is "vmware.com", just in case you are trying to kickstart VMware ESX 2.x.x, it is based on an older version of anaconda that doesn't support the part-include functionality. You can have a %pre section, but the ks.cfg file won't get re-read to pick up a new partition layout. I haven't looked at it yet, but this should be fixed in ESX 3, which is based on RHEL 3. Gordon Keegan -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Mah [mailto:smah@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:01 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: part-include I have a %pre script that writes to /tmp/part-include depending on the hard drive layout. The file, part-include is successfully written, but kickstart seems to ignore it. I've tried putting, before the %pre section and in the %pre section. %include /tmp/part-include Where do you put this line?