Hi, btw: I were not sure if you're subscribed. If you are, I won't cc: you anymore. I am, so please don't cc: me :)
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:40, Matthias Lechner wrote: > hm, I guess you're talking about this thread? > http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20050113.113849.a176bf21.en.html Yup. btw, Thomas there writes "<echo or cat commands for creating fstab and disk_var.sh>" - I never bothered to create that /tmp/disk_var.sh, I just fcopied /etc/fstab - but I would like to know how that disk_var.sh works. > Sounds good to me. I just don't know why it should be used for only a few > computers? :) Just before I sent the mail, I was thinking about that sentence. It's not (really) true, as you can automate everything with hooks. But somehow I had the impression that you created that "funny first three" partiontions manually - that wouldnt scale. Creating (or preserving) them all with hooks works fine. Maybe also this sentence slipt in, because at the moment on powerpc I do/did create the initial partition layout manually... (setup_harddiscs doesnt work on ppc and I have only few ppc machines.) > I need an existing partition to run the mkfs.ext2-command, right? Yes. > Would be > ok, since we need to run PartitionMagic on every computer to get linux > installed. In this case, would it be possible to make such a hook a > "standard" for our lab? Yep (although I dont get what you want to do with PartitionMagic. Better use fdisk in the hook ;). You could name the file FAI_CONFIGDIR/hooks/partition.STANDARD or partition.YOURLAB - have a look at the more advanced examples. regards, Holger