Re: kickstart+part

[Bjorge Solli <bjorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Snook wrote:
> Bjorge Solli wrote:
> > Empty disk before install, both fedora 7 and 8.
> >
> > When I use part like this in a ks-file:
> > #Partition clearing information
> > clearpart --all --initlabel
> > #Disk partitioning information
> > part /reboot --fstype=vfat --size=256 --asprimary
> > part / --fstype=ext3 --size=40000 --asprimary
> > part swap --size=2048 --asprimary
> > part /scratch --fstype=ext3 --size=1 --grow --asprimary
> >
> > ..they don't show up in that order. Is there a way to tell fedora to 
> > keep the order? I tried using anaconda too, with the same result.
> >
> > regards
> > Bjørge
> >
> > PS. --onpart would not work since the partition table is empty or 
> > different before install.
>
> I've always done the partitioning in %pre and used onpart.  You can also 
> get things in the desired order if you use --onpart for only the second 
> out of three partitions, but I don't know of a way to do this with four 
> partitions.  This probably deserves a BZ, as it's been around (and 
> annoying) for quite a while.

BZ?

I'm opting to do it in %pre too, but it should be possible to do in the 
kickstartfile, imho.

Bjørge