installing to a wiped disk

[Bob Apodaca]

On 07/10/2015 07:46 AM, John G Heim wrote:
> 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
Hi John,

I am using "disklabel:gpt" to create a GPT style partition table. You 
can also use "disklabel:msdos" to make the old style partition table. 
This belongs on your "disk_config" line before you specify partitions, 
file systems, etc.

Some more information here: http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Setup-storage

Bob