partitioning problem

[Michael Tautschnig]

[...]
> the only way i got linux installed is by booting with an partition-magic 
> disk and convert the extendet partition into a primary one and to shrink 
> the last partition. thismleads to a pretty stupid partition-order: hde1, 
> hde4 and then hde3. a manual debian installation worked with that, but 
> fai just tells me the following:
>
> [...]
> Calling task_partition
> Partitioning local harddisks
> FAI: setup harddisks V0.32fai
> Probing disks:  /dev/hde
> Disks found: hde
>
> parsing config file: /fai/disk_config/SMALL_IDE
> NUMERATION ERROR in line 10, the number of the partition can not be preserved:
> primary  /mnt/win2     preserve4   ro
> cp: cannot stat `/tmp/fai/disk_var.sh': No such file or directory
>
The problem lies in your partition ordering (i.e., hde1, hde4, hde3) - you 
can't preserve the 4th partition, if there are only 3 ... (at least 
linux-)fdisk should be able to fix the partition-order.

[...]

Regards,
Michael