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

[R. F. Grant]

Ahh, fantastic! That worked a treat, exactly as written. Many thanks!

Richard

Michael Tautschnig wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>>     
>
> Ah, yes, could have thought of that too (as we are experiencing the same
> problems here...). It has been resolved as follows: For MY_CLASS, add the
> following hook partition.MY_CLASS:
>
>
> echo "Partitioning local harddisks"
> [ ! -s $LOGDIR/disk_var.sh ] && setup_harddisks -X | tee $LOGDIR/format.log 2>&1
> # setup_harddisks must create $LOGDIR/disk_var.sh file
> if [ ! -s $LOGDIR/disk_var.sh ]; then
> cat $LOGDIR/format.log
> sendmon "TASKERROR partition 21"
> die "setup_harddisks did not create $LOGDIR/disk_var.sh file."
> fi
> # now define variable for root and boot partition and boot device
> . $LOGDIR/disk_var.sh
> touch $LOGDIR/skip.partition
>
>
> Well, actually you may then need to put the proper options in there (-D, if you
> will), but I guess you get the idea.
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
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