hello long story short, we use some self developed software to dynamicaly install windows/linux on alot of workstations we use for education; the partitions are made dynamically depending on what is being installed.
for the auto installer, this is afaik bad as you need to know the layout to delete partitions. it would really be cool if you could define a command in the ai_manifest for a command(s) to be executed at the very beginning, like "fdisk -B /dev/rdsk....". and/or if there was an option like <ai_target_device> <target_device_name>c3d0</target_device_name> <target_device_use_entire_disk>true</target_device_use_entire_disk> </ai_target_device> which would do the same as "fdisk -B" or some option to delete all partitions. excuse me if something already exists to delete a partition without knowing the sector start. in my opinion, knowing the prior disk layout is not automated ;-) if something like this, or a walkaround, is already possible please let me know thanks in advance & regards vinz -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
