Preserving Non-Mounted Partitions

[Brian E. Seppanen]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:

> I have some older HP (Compaq) Servers that are going to be repurposed. On 
> these systems the System Configuration, and BIOS options are available via a 
> system partition that is created by the Hardware Installation CD's. The 
> partition is give a Drive Type of 12 for Compaq Diagnostics.   I want to 
> retain this data.    Is there some method of preserving that data.    I tried
>
> disk_config disk1
> primary /compaq  9              ro                      ; preserve1
>
> The installation sequence ended up creating a ext3 partition, whereas the 
> data was not an ext3 partition previously.
>
> Has anyone else found a way to do this?
>
> I'm using FAI 2.8.4 with debian 3.1.

I was able to resolve my problem by looking through the documentation

my config needed to be
disk_config disk1
primary - preserve1
...etc...

Thanks,