reassign partman-auto
thanks

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:14:09PM -0800, Paul Telford wrote:
> 
> After reading over all the documentation and examples I can find and
> running numerous test installs, it does not seem to be possible to
> create an expert-recipe for use in a preseed file which only partitions
> a portion of my disk. For example, I want to create a 1G / partition, a
> 256MB swap and leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned for later use.

Yes.  The current algorithms do not allow this.  However you can create
one additional partition in the free space.  After the installation you
can remove it.

> I used the following recipe which, from my reading of the docs, should
> do that:
> 
> d-i  partman-auto/expert_recipe  string linuxcoe-custom :: 1000 10000
> 1000 ext3 $primary{ } $bootable{ } method{ format } format{ }
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } mountpoint{ / } . 256 200 256
> linux-swap $primary{ } method{ swap } format{ } .

Add this:

1 1 1000000 ext3 .

to your recipe.

Anton Zinoviev




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