Ginnie and Melbogia: If you setup a manifest to delete all partitions, make sure you you do not do partition 2 because it represent the whole disk.
Virginia Wray wrote: > On 11/11/09 08:56, melbogia wrote: >> Hello, >> I am trying to use Automated Installer to install OpenSolaris snv_111b >> on a number of machines and they all have different partitions table. >> Now I know that I can specifically say in the manifest to delete a >> partition as explained on this page >> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/customai.html. The >> problem is I have to specifically say "delete partiton 1 or 2 or 3" >> like so >> >> <ai_device_partitioning> >> <partition_action>delete</partition_action> >> <partition_number>3</partition_number> >> </ai_device_partitioning> >> >> But not all machines have these number of partitions (for example 2) >> so I can't say delete partition 1 and 2. Is there a way to say >> something like "delete all the partitions you find and use the whole >> disk"? >> > Hi - > > There is currently a bug filed against the scenario your asking about. > Support for picking up 'whole disk' in AI manifest desired: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6488, > so right now there isn't a straightforward way to do what you're asking. > > It looks like you've been looking at the documentation. This might help > you out if you haven't seen it. It provides explanations of each tag in > the AI manifest. > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/AIinstall/aimanifest.html > > Have you actually tried deleting a partition that doesn't exist? > According to one of my colleagues, this is one way to work around the > problem. You might try setting up the manifest to delete all > partitions. In other words, set up the tags as above for partition > 1,2,3,4, whether or not they actually exist. (This should also work > similarly for sparc systems, if you are using them as well.) > There is another bug that you might run into: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7794. You may have to > declare a size to be deleted, as it currently is a required option. This > may only be a problem on sparc systems. The bug doesn't indicate. > > Once you've deleted all of the partitions, you should be able to create > a new partition and size for your install.. > > Let me know how it goes, or feel free to update 6488 with a work around. > > thanks, >
