Am Donnerstag 05 August 2010 14:25:48 schrieb Michael Tautschnig: > Hi Birgit, > > > Hi, > > how can I preserve dos partitions using fai disk_config? > > Here an example of a server to be installed (partitions 1 +2 should > > be preserved): > > [...] > > > This is my configuration file: > > > > disk_config disk1 preserve_reinstall:1,2 > > primary /dos 70-80 fat32 ??? > > primary /dos2 210-220 fat32 ??? > > [...] > > I'd have several notes here: > > - Your "???" should be replaced by the desired mount options for fstab, so > maybe "ro" if you want read-only access. > - Here I assuming you want to mount them at all, given you specified mount > points; you could also replace the mount point by "-", if you don't > intend to have them mounted. > - If these are really service partitions, preserve_always might be more > desirable instead of preserve_reinstall. If this is the case, you can > also go for a size of 0, setup-storage won't care much. > > Hope this helps, > Michael Dear Michael, thank you for the quick reply.
Yes, these are DELL service partitions and I want to preserve them but not to mount them. I don't know how to do the configuration for these two lines. The '???' is meant for the whole line. The error message of setup-storage was: unknown/invalid filesystem type fat32 (mkfs.fat32 not found in PATH) Is this the right way?: disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1,2 primary - - vfat ro primary - - vfat ro primary /boot 500 ext3 rw logical / 15G-16G ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro createopts="-m 5" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0" ... -- Kind Regards Birgit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hochschulrechenzentrum der Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 D-35392 Giessen, Germany email: birgit.katt...@hrz.uni-giessen.de phone: +49 641 99 13022 (+49 641 99 13001) fax: +49 641 99 19844