automatically partition disk as in deb-installer?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I'm installing debian on a bunch of old hard drives and am looking for a way to automate the install process, including partitioning drives. I thought all the hard drives were idenical, but they appear not to be, and I'm having trouble with the (very simple) script I was using to copy the old

Re: automatically partition disk as in deb-installer?

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Matt Price wrote: Hi, I'm installing debian on a bunch of old hard drives and am looking for a way to automate the install process, including partitioning drives. I thought all the hard drives were idenical, but they appear not to be, and I'm having trouble with the (very simple) script I was

Re: automatically partition disk as in deb-installer?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
On 9/28/05, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: * sfdisk -d /dev/hdf /var/scratch/hde.out WARNING Will Robinson! The output from sfdisk is not always usable as input to sfdisk, even on the same disc, let alone another! I suggest you look carefully at the file