On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:01:23AM +0200, LeaseWeb - Poelwijk wrote: > Hi Ray, > > I had exactly the same problem, but the following two kickstart options > helped me out: > > #Any invalid partition tables found on disks are initialized. > #This will destroy all of the contents of disks with invalid partition > tables > zerombr yes > > #Erase all partitions > clearpart --all Thanks. So, to clarify; this _won't_ destroy my existing Windows partitions? (I'll just try it I guess) Ray > Sander Poelwijk. > > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > >Hi all, trying to do a kickstart install onto a system which already > >has Windows XP on it. One drive with three 80GB partitions. The > >first two is NTFS and the last 80GB partition is unused. > > > >The installer starts up fine, but as soon as I hit 'next' on the first > >page to where the disk layout review page should be I get the following > >error: > > > > Could not allocate requested partitions: > > > > Unsatisfied partition request > > New Part request -- mountpoint: None uniqueID: 6 > > type: physical volume (LVM) format: 1 badblocks: None > > device: None drive: ['sda'] primary: None > > size: 0 grow: 1 maxsize: None > > start: None end: None migrate: None origfstype: None. > > > > Press 'OK' to reboot your system > > > >I've tried combinations of autopart, zerombr and bootloader in my KS > >file to no avail. I don't want to use clearpart as it'll wipe out my > >Windows partitions. > > > >If I just do a regular non-KS install it doesn't hang here and I can > >set up my partitions preserving my Windows ones. > > > >Here is the relevant portion of the KS file I'm using: > > > > install > > nfs --server=10.49.6.46 --dir=/install/RHEL4/es/update4 > > interactive > > lang en_US.UTF-8 > > langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 > > keyboard us > > xconfig --startxonboot --resolution=800x600 --depth 16 > > --defaultdesktop=GNOME > > %include /tmp/network.ks > > rootpw --iscrypted $1$SXuw6/KM$xmV2mmVR3g2HNBmENHuSR. > > firewall --disabled > > selinux --disabled > > firstboot --disable > > authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 > > timezone America/Los_Angeles > > bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet" > > > >Any suggestions? > > > >Ray
