At 11:59 AM 3/21/2006, Scott Silva wrote:
>Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 3/21/2006 7:29 AM:
> > At 10:43 PM 3/20/2006, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:40:26PM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened
> >> us:
> >> > So I want the suspend to disk option.
> >> >
> >> > I have found lphdisk http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
> >> >
> >> > It says to create a primary partition of type a0
> >> >
> >> > How do I do this in kickstart? Will it let me do a type?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > part /??? --fstype a0 --size 1058
> >> >
> >> > size is 1024 + 32 + 2
> >> >
> >> > What do I put in for the mount point?
> >> >
> >> > Where do I go for help? I have exhausted google...
> >>
> >> I would suggest reading the documentation about kickstart, not just
> >> guessing.
> >>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
> >>
> >
> > I have spent hours reading this and trying to read 'between the lines'
> > already, before I asked here...
> >
> >> You'll notice the listing of valid fstype options, none of which are a0.
> >
> > yes. that is why I turned to asking.
> >
> >> I would recommend looking to %pre or %post sections to format the right
> >> partition type for you with the native tools.
> >
> > Fine. I am even willing to run it completely after the install. But
> > what do I do for creating the partition? Do I just do a dummy mount
> > point like /suspend ? An fstype of ext3? And how do I specify a
> > primary partition (and do primaries have to come before ext3
> > partitions? Have not found text on this.)
> >
> > And then use some other tool ???? that will remove the mount point and
> > change the fstype to a0 before running lphdisk?
> >
> > Or do I leave part of the disk not in a partition and use some other
> > tool to prepare the partition for lphdisk?
> >
>
>You could make a dummy partition the right size during the install, and not
>assign it to a mount point.
I could not find out if mount point was optional. Now I know.
> Then after it boots, you could use fdisk to change
>the partition type. I would not format the partition, but it shouldn't hurt if
>you have to,
I see the noformat option for part.
> and the partition used to need to be the first, or at least a
>primary partition.
Doesn't the boot partition need to be first? Then the suspend would
come after it? Followed by the LVM then swap partitions.
>The best option would be to find a rescue disk with this
>utility on it, and use it first to create and format the partition. Then
>during the install, choose the option to use free space to install.
>BG-Rescue Disk has it;
>http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/
>and so does RIP;
>http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/looplinux/rip/
thanks. I forgot to bring blank CDs with me. But it has been pointed
out that my Centos boot CD has something worth using.
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three percent of the people think they think;
and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think."
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