installing to a wiped disk

[John G Heim]

My setup-storage config is below. I copied it from a working FAI setup. 
Our current FAI server is debian wheezy with FAI 4.3.1. I'm setting up 
an ubuntu vivid server with FAI 4.3.3.

I mentioned in another message that I happen to be blind. But I did 
listen to the setup-storage documentation and I didn't hear anything 
about creating a partition table. It is somewhat tedious listening to 
documentation, as you might imagine, and I may have missed it.

disk_config disk1 bootable:1 align-at:4k
primary  /         64G      ext3           rw,relatime
logical  swap          4G-8G   swap   rw
logical  /home      1%-   ext3  rw,relatime


On 07/10/2015 09:09 AM, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:47:49AM -0500, John G Heim wrote:
>> I have some machines that will PXE boot if the hard disk is not
>> bootable. Usually, I make that so by writing zeros to the first
>> million blocks. "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1000000".
>>
>> [Note, I know that a million blocks is way more than necessary.]
>>
>> -- But that appears to cause a problem for setup-storage. It errors
>> out if there is no partition table on the disk. Is there a way to
>> get setup-storage to create a partition table?
>
> That must be a problem with your disk_config - I'm sometimes using
> the same trick... Can you show some detailts to the list?
>
> Cheers,
>   S
>

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John Heim, jheim at math.wisc.edu, skype:john.g.heim