preserve first primary partition

2009-05-22 Thread John G. Heim
I am trying to create some dual-boot machines using FAI. But I cannot figure hout how to preserve the first partition where Windows is installed. I did managed to wipe Windows out on one computer. If I say preserve_always:1, do I still have to create a line for that partition? I want linux ins

Re: preserve first primary partition

2009-05-23 Thread Gert Huisman
Here is a working example from our DUALBOOT setup: disk_config disk1 primary - preserve1 ro,nosuid; primary / 1000-2000 rw,errors=remount-ro ; -c -j ext3 logical swap 2000-8000 rw logical /var 2000-5000 rw

Re: preserve first primary partition

2009-05-23 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:18:16 +0200, Gert Huisman said: > Here is a working example from our DUALBOOT setup: > disk_config disk1 > primary - preserve1 ro,nosuid; > primary / 1000-2000 rw,errors=remount-ro ; -c -j ext3 This is an e

Re: preserve first primary partition

2009-05-23 Thread Thomas Lange
This is my example (using setup-storage) , how I install my notebooks with dualboot. # example of new config file for setup-storage disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1 preserve_reinstall:7,8,9 primary /win 15G-17G ntfs rw primary / 5G-6G ext3 rw,noatime,error

Re: preserve first primary partition

2009-06-04 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Just for the sake of completeness: > I am trying to create some dual-boot machines using FAI. But I cannot > figure hout how to preserve the first partition where Windows is > installed. I did managed to wipe Windows out on one computer. > > If I say preserve_always:1, do I still have to create