[tautschn at model.in.tum.de: Re: FAI partitioning question]

[R. F. Grant]

Sorry, I think I may have confused things a little:

the -D is an option to setup_harddisks (you can see it by looking at the
setup_harddisks script) - but how do we get fai to call seup_harddisks
with the -D option, which then allows sfdisk to run properly?

Regards,

Richard

Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Sorry, mysteriously forgot the CC...
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> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:31:53 +0100
> From: Michael Tautschnig <tautschn at model.in.tum.de>
> To: "R. F. Grant" <rfg3 at mcs.le.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: FAI partitioning question
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01)
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>> I notice that sfdisk, which setup_harddisks actually uses to do the
>> partitioning, has a -D option to allow DOS compatability. And, in fact,
>> running sfdisk -D on the drive after FAI drops out does actually work.
>>
>> The question, then: is there some parameter I can get FAI to pass to
>> setup_harddisks so that it will format in DOS compatability mode? Or
>> some equivalent work around?
>>
>>     
> [...]
>
> You should do as follows: Say, your client has a class MY_HOST, then add a file
> class/MY_HOST.var containing:
>
> export sfdisk="-D"
>
> Well, that should be about it.
>
> Best,
> Michael
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