On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Tony Schreiner enlightened us: > I am trying kickstart for the first time, and am running into > something I don't see described in the documentation. > > Somewhere between me and my purchasing department and Dell, my order > for 6 PE 1850s was changed from "no installed OS" to WIndows. So I > received the boxes with Windows pre-installed. > > I would like to delete the NTFS partition with Windows, but keep the > Dell Utility partition on the first partition. In the documentation > for kickstart, I see options for > > deleting linux partitions > deleting all partitions > > but not one for deleting one or more specific partitions. > Correct. In this case, you can either delete by hand, or run a script in the %pre section of your kickstart file, e.g. %pre parted rm 2 Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263