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/s1-kickstart2-options.html > >> > > > > 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