So I want the suspend to disk option.
I have found lphdisk http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
It says to create a primary partition of type a0
How do I do this in kickstart? Will it let me do a type?
part /??? --fstype a0 --size 1058
size is 1024 + 32 + 2
What do I put in for the mount point?
Where do I go for help? I have exhausted google...
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:40:26PM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us:
So I want the suspend to disk option.
I have found lphdisk http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
It says to create a primary partition of type a0
How do I do this in kickstart? Will it let me do a type?
part /??? --fstype a0 --size 1058
size is 1024 + 32 + 2
What do I put in for the mount point?
Where do I go for help? I have exhausted google...
I would suggest reading the documentation about kickstart, not just guessing. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s...
You'll notice the listing of valid fstype options, none of which are a0.
I would recommend looking to %pre or %post sections to format the right partition type for you with the native tools.
Matt
At 10:43 PM 3/20/2006, Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:40:26PM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us:
So I want the suspend to disk option.
I have found lphdisk http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
It says to create a primary partition of type a0
How do I do this in kickstart? Will it let me do a type?
part /??? --fstype a0 --size 1058
size is 1024 + 32 + 2
What do I put in for the mount point?
Where do I go for help? I have exhausted google...
I would suggest reading the documentation about kickstart, not just guessing. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s...
I have spent hours reading this and trying to read 'between the lines' already, before I asked here...
You'll notice the listing of valid fstype options, none of which are a0.
yes. that is why I turned to asking.
I would recommend looking to %pre or %post sections to format the right partition type for you with the native tools.
Fine. I am even willing to run it completely after the install. But what do I do for creating the partition? Do I just do a dummy mount point like /suspend ? An fstype of ext3? And how do I specify a primary partition (and do primaries have to come before ext3 partitions? Have not found text on this.)
And then use some other tool ???? that will remove the mount point and change the fstype to a0 before running lphdisk?
Or do I leave part of the disk not in a partition and use some other tool to prepare the partition for lphdisk?
Matt
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us:
At 10:43 PM 3/20/2006, Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:40:26PM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us:
So I want the suspend to disk option.
I have found lphdisk http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
It says to create a primary partition of type a0
How do I do this in kickstart? Will it let me do a type?
part /??? --fstype a0 --size 1058
size is 1024 + 32 + 2
What do I put in for the mount point?
Where do I go for help? I have exhausted google...
I would suggest reading the documentation about kickstart, not just guessing. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s...
I have spent hours reading this and trying to read 'between the lines' already, before I asked here...
There's nothing between the lines to read.
You'll notice the listing of valid fstype options, none of which are a0.
yes. that is why I turned to asking.
It's plainly stated what the options to fstype are. I'm not sure what there was to ask.
I would recommend looking to %pre or %post sections to format the right partition type for you with the native tools.
Fine. I am even willing to run it completely after the install. But what do I do for creating the partition? Do I just do a dummy mount point like /suspend ? An fstype of ext3? And how do I specify a primary partition (and do primaries have to come before ext3 partitions? Have not found text on this.)
And then use some other tool ???? that will remove the mount point and change the fstype to a0 before running lphdisk?
Or do I leave part of the disk not in a partition and use some other tool to prepare the partition for lphdisk?
Either way would work. Don't confuse partition types and filesystem types. Primary partitions are one thing, ext3 filesystem on a partition is another. You get 4 primary partitions, if you want more partitions than that, then one primary partition has to be an extended partition in which you create the other 12 logical partitions. You can put ext3 on any of these. This is basic DOS stuff.
I'd have to check to make sure, but I'm willing to bet that parted is available during the kickstart. I would probably use that to take care of creating your partition in the %pre section of kickstart, then let the kickstart disk management stuff use the rest of the disk. There are other ways to skin the cat, a couple of which you have mentioned.
Matt
At 11:26 AM 3/21/2006, Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us:
At 10:43 PM 3/20/2006, Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:40:26PM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us:
So I want the suspend to disk option.
I have found lphdisk http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
It says to create a primary partition of type a0
How do I do this in kickstart? Will it let me do a type?
part /??? --fstype a0 --size 1058
size is 1024 + 32 + 2
What do I put in for the mount point?
Where do I go for help? I have exhausted google...
I would suggest reading the documentation about kickstart, not just guessing. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysad
min-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
I have spent hours reading this and trying to read 'between the lines' already, before I asked here...
There's nothing between the lines to read.
And not enough is there to really be effective in using the technology. Just the basics.
You'll notice the listing of valid fstype options, none of which are a0.
yes. that is why I turned to asking.
It's plainly stated what the options to fstype are. I'm not sure what there was to ask.
And how do you set other types? I could boot with a ghost 9 rescue CD (which I did not bring with me) and edit the partition table. But is there a Linux tool to do this?
I would recommend looking to %pre or %post sections to format the right partition type for you with the native tools.
Fine. I am even willing to run it completely after the install. But what do I do for creating the partition? Do I just do a dummy mount point like /suspend ? An fstype of ext3? And how do I specify a primary partition (and do primaries have to come before ext3 partitions? Have not found text on this.)
And then use some other tool ???? that will remove the mount point and change the fstype to a0 before running lphdisk?
Or do I leave part of the disk not in a partition and use some other tool to prepare the partition for lphdisk?
Either way would work. Don't confuse partition types and filesystem types. Primary partitions are one thing, ext3 filesystem on a partition is another.
oh, so a0 is a partition type. What IS the partition type that Linux makes for its boot, swap, and EXT3 filesystems? How do I see this without something like Ghost recovery?
You get 4 primary partitions, if you want more partitions than that, then one primary partition has to be an extended partition in which you create the other 12 logical partitions. You can put ext3 on any of these. This is basic DOS stuff.
I have seen this, and it looks like I will have to use LVM:
/boot / /home Suspend Swap
So I would have to put / and /home into the LVM partition...
I'd have to check to make sure, but I'm willing to bet that parted is available during the kickstart.
Well the kickstart command is part:
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 part / --fstype ext3 --size 10240 --grow part /home --fstype ext3 --size 25600 part swap --size 2048
I would probably use that to take care of creating your partition in the %pre section of kickstart, then let the kickstart disk management stuff use the rest of the disk. There are other ways to skin the cat, a couple of which you have mentioned.
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-sag-en-4/s1-kickstart2-preinstallconf...
if [ $numhd == "2" ] ; then #2 drives echo "#partitioning scheme generated in %pre for 2 drives" > /tmp/part-include echo "clearpart --all" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 75 --ondisk hda" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part / --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --ondisk hda" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part swap --recommended --ondisk $drive1" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part /home --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --ondisk hdb" >> /tmp/part-include else #1 drive echo "#partitioning scheme generated in %pre for 1 drive" > /tmp/part-include echo "clearpart --all" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 75" >> /tmp/part-includ echo "part swap --recommended" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part / --fstype ext3 --size 2048" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part /home --fstype ext3 --size 2048 --grow" >> /tmp/part-include fi
Does not look any different in terms of part commands than you can put into kickstart. Just the logic to take advantage of it all. I **AM** reading as much as I can find, but I am not finding enough of what I need....
Barrs Law of Recursive futility If you're smart enough to use one of these.... .....you can probably manage without one!
On Mar 21, 2006, at 13:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
And how do you set other types? I could boot with a ghost 9 rescue CD (which I did not bring with me) and edit the partition table. But is there a Linux tool to do this?
You can boot from the CentOS installation CD and type "linux rescue" at the prompt. And then use fdisk (type m for help as the command prompt says).
oh, so a0 is a partition type. What IS the partition type that Linux makes for its boot, swap, and EXT3 filesystems? How do I see this without something like Ghost recovery?
Again, fdisk is your friend:
[root@centos ~]# fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2231. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): l
0 Empty 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 75 PC/IX be Solaris boot 1 FAT12 24 NEC DOS 80 Old Minix bf Solaris 2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 81 Minix / old Lin c1 DRDOS/ sec (FAT- 3 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 82 Linux swap c4 DRDOS/ sec (FAT- 4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 83 Linux c6 DRDOS/ sec (FAT- 5 Extended 41 PPC PReP Boot 84 OS/2 hidden C: c7 Syrinx 6 FAT16 42 SFS 85 Linux extended da Non-FS data 7 HPFS/NTFS 4d QNX4.x 86 NTFS volume set db CP/M / CTOS / . 8 AIX 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 87 NTFS volume set de Dell Utility 9 AIX bootable 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM df BootIt a OS/2 Boot Manag 50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e1 DOS access b W95 FAT32 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS e4 SpeedStor e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS fs f W95 Ext'd (LBA) 54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ee EFI GPT 10 OPUS 55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD ef EFI (FAT-12/16/ 11 Hidden FAT12 56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f0 Linux/ PA-RISC b 12 Compaq diagnost 5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f1 SpeedStor 14 Hidden FAT16 <3 61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f4 SpeedStor 16 Hidden FAT16 63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot f2 DOS secondary 17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fd Linux raid auto 18 AST SmartSleep 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fe LANstep 1b Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff BBT 1c Hidden W95 FAT3
Alfred
At 01:15 PM 3/21/2006, Alfred von Campe wrote:
On Mar 21, 2006, at 13:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
And how do you set other types? I could boot with a ghost 9 rescue CD (which I did not bring with me) and edit the partition table. But is there a Linux tool to do this?
You can boot from the CentOS installation CD and type "linux rescue" at the prompt. And then use fdisk (type m for help as the command prompt says).
Great, thanks.
I am putting points like this into my Freemind Linux notes...
oh, so a0 is a partition type. What IS the partition type that Linux makes for its boot, swap, and EXT3 filesystems? How do I see this without something like Ghost recovery?
Again, fdisk is your friend:
[root@centos ~]# fdisk /dev/sda
I will give this a go. With the cylinder info (as you show below, I can more intelligently place the partitions.
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2231. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with:
- software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
- booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): l
0 Empty 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 75 PC/IX be Solaris boot 1 FAT12 24 NEC DOS 80 Old Minix bf Solaris 2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 81 Minix / old Lin c1 DRDOS/ sec (FAT- 3 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 82 Linux swap c4 DRDOS/ sec (FAT- 4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 83 Linux c6 DRDOS/ sec (FAT- 5 Extended 41 PPC PReP Boot 84 OS/2 hidden C: c7 Syrinx 6 FAT16 42 SFS 85 Linux extended da Non-FS data 7 HPFS/NTFS 4d QNX4.x 86 NTFS volume set db CP/M / CTOS / . 8 AIX 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 87 NTFS volume set de Dell Utility 9 AIX bootable 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM df BootIt a OS/2 Boot Manag 50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e1 DOS access b W95 FAT32 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS e4 SpeedStor e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS fs f W95 Ext'd (LBA) 54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ee EFI GPT 10 OPUS 55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD ef EFI (FAT-12/16/ 11 Hidden FAT12 56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f0 Linux/ PA-RISC b 12 Compaq diagnost 5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f1 SpeedStor 14 Hidden FAT16 <3 61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f4 SpeedStor 16 Hidden FAT16 63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot f2 DOS secondary 17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fd Linux raid auto 18 AST SmartSleep 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fe LANstep 1b Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff BBT 1c Hidden W95 FAT3
Alfred
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Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 3/21/2006 7:29 AM:
At 10:43 PM 3/20/2006, Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:40:26PM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us:
So I want the suspend to disk option.
I have found lphdisk http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
It says to create a primary partition of type a0
How do I do this in kickstart? Will it let me do a type?
part /??? --fstype a0 --size 1058
size is 1024 + 32 + 2
What do I put in for the mount point?
Where do I go for help? I have exhausted google...
I would suggest reading the documentation about kickstart, not just guessing. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s...
I have spent hours reading this and trying to read 'between the lines' already, before I asked here...
You'll notice the listing of valid fstype options, none of which are a0.
yes. that is why I turned to asking.
I would recommend looking to %pre or %post sections to format the right partition type for you with the native tools.
Fine. I am even willing to run it completely after the install. But what do I do for creating the partition? Do I just do a dummy mount point like /suspend ? An fstype of ext3? And how do I specify a primary partition (and do primaries have to come before ext3 partitions? Have not found text on this.)
And then use some other tool ???? that will remove the mount point and change the fstype to a0 before running lphdisk?
Or do I leave part of the disk not in a partition and use some other tool to prepare the partition for lphdisk?
You could make a dummy partition the right size during the install, and not assign it to a mount point. Then after it boots, you could use fdisk to change the partition type. I would not format the partition, but it shouldn't hurt if you have to, and the partition used to need to be the first, or at least a primary partition. The best option would be to find a rescue disk with this utility on it, and use it first to create and format the partition. Then during the install, choose the option to use free space to install. BG-Rescue Disk has it; http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/ and so does RIP; http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/looplinux/rip/
At 11:59 AM 3/21/2006, Scott Silva wrote:
Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 3/21/2006 7:29 AM:
At 10:43 PM 3/20/2006, Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:40:26PM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us:
So I want the suspend to disk option.
I have found lphdisk http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
It says to create a primary partition of type a0
How do I do this in kickstart? Will it let me do a type?
part /??? --fstype a0 --size 1058
size is 1024 + 32 + 2
What do I put in for the mount point?
Where do I go for help? I have exhausted google...
I would suggest reading the documentation about kickstart, not just guessing.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s...
I have spent hours reading this and trying to read 'between the lines' already, before I asked here...
You'll notice the listing of valid fstype options, none of which are a0.
yes. that is why I turned to asking.
I would recommend looking to %pre or %post sections to format the right partition type for you with the native tools.
Fine. I am even willing to run it completely after the install. But what do I do for creating the partition? Do I just do a dummy mount point like /suspend ? An fstype of ext3? And how do I specify a primary partition (and do primaries have to come before ext3 partitions? Have not found text on this.)
And then use some other tool ???? that will remove the mount point and change the fstype to a0 before running lphdisk?
Or do I leave part of the disk not in a partition and use some other tool to prepare the partition for lphdisk?
You could make a dummy partition the right size during the install, and not assign it to a mount point.
I could not find out if mount point was optional. Now I know.
Then after it boots, you could use fdisk to change the partition type. I would not format the partition, but it shouldn't hurt if you have to,
I see the noformat option for part.
and the partition used to need to be the first, or at least a primary partition.
Doesn't the boot partition need to be first? Then the suspend would come after it? Followed by the LVM then swap partitions.
The best option would be to find a rescue disk with this utility on it, and use it first to create and format the partition. Then during the install, choose the option to use free space to install. BG-Rescue Disk has it; http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/ and so does RIP; http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/looplinux/rip/
thanks. I forgot to bring blank CDs with me. But it has been pointed out that my Centos boot CD has something worth using.
"Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think."
George Bernard Shaw
Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 3/21/2006 11:33 AM:
At 11:59 AM 3/21/2006, Scott Silva wrote:
Robert Moskowitz spake the following on 3/21/2006 7:29 AM:
At 10:43 PM 3/20/2006, Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:40:26PM -0600, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us:
So I want the suspend to disk option.
I have found lphdisk http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
It says to create a primary partition of type a0
How do I do this in kickstart? Will it let me do a type?
part /??? --fstype a0 --size 1058
size is 1024 + 32 + 2
What do I put in for the mount point?
Where do I go for help? I have exhausted google...
I would suggest reading the documentation about kickstart, not just guessing.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s...
I have spent hours reading this and trying to read 'between the lines' already, before I asked here...
You'll notice the listing of valid fstype options, none of which
are a0.
yes. that is why I turned to asking.
I would recommend looking to %pre or %post sections to format the
right
partition type for you with the native tools.
Fine. I am even willing to run it completely after the install. But what do I do for creating the partition? Do I just do a dummy mount point like /suspend ? An fstype of ext3? And how do I specify a primary partition (and do primaries have to come before ext3 partitions? Have not found text on this.)
And then use some other tool ???? that will remove the mount point and change the fstype to a0 before running lphdisk?
Or do I leave part of the disk not in a partition and use some other tool to prepare the partition for lphdisk?
You could make a dummy partition the right size during the install, and not assign it to a mount point.
I could not find out if mount point was optional. Now I know.
Then after it boots, you could use fdisk to change the partition type. I would not format the partition, but it shouldn't hurt if you have to,
I see the noformat option for part.
and the partition used to need to be the first, or at least a primary partition.
Doesn't the boot partition need to be first? Then the suspend would come after it? Followed by the LVM then swap partitions.
The best option would be to find a rescue disk with this utility on it, and use it first to create and format the partition. Then during the install, choose the option to use free space to install. BG-Rescue Disk has it; http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/ and so does RIP; http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/looplinux/rip/
thanks. I forgot to bring blank CDs with me. But it has been pointed out that my Centos boot CD has something worth using.
"Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think."
George Bernard Shaw
The boot partition doesn't need to be first, it just should be completely in the first 1024 cylinders. Depending on the size of the disk you could easily fit the suspend and boot partitions in that space.
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