That's ugly and bad. You should use a hook for that.
agreed ;-) it was the result of 4x8 hour days trying to figure out the real problem with the hardware.
Create a file hooks/partition.MYHARDWARE:
#! /bin/sh
mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda3 mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda6 <echo or cat commands for creating fstab and disk_var.sh> skiptask partition
brilliant! I knew a hook should be able to do it, but all the hook examples i've seen always called the task and then added more to it, I missed the bit about using 'skiptask' - this looks like it'll work perfectly and I'll try it first thing tomorrow!
You also have to create the file disk_var.sh and the fstab file in this hook.
Sounds simple! thanks for your help Thomas :)
Nick.
