Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 49237
Should be able to create non-linux partitions
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
Description of Problem: I have testet ksconfig-1.9.3-0.noarch.rpm from rawhide and I must say it is very much improved compared to v1.2 There are however some features I still miss * It should be possible to create non-linux partitions like fat16, fat32, ect. ksconfig-1.2 supports creation of fat16 but this is gone in v1.9.3. This is maybe (hopefully) temporary since the partion stuff in 1.9.3 seems to be enhanced with many new options ? * Import function, It would be nice to preload settings from a previously created ks.cfg file * Enhanced package selection. At pressent you are only able to select the main categories, not each individually package. This is acually kinda useless. The best solution was if you could generate your own hdlist file and select packages defined in this. Best regards, Vidar
Thanks for taking a look at the ksconfig in rawhide. It's pretty much a complete rewrite of the first version. My original idea for ksconfig was to allow you to create a basic kickstart file quickly that you could then customize manually. I then realized that the correct thing to do was to extend it to let you do pretty much everything that kickstart will let you do. A lot of functionality was missing from 1.2, such as X configuration, individual package selection, %pre and %post, and configuring software RAID. The rewrite took longer than I anticipated, so I didn't get all the functionality into the current version either. X configuration, %pre, and %post made it in, but RAID and individual package selecion will have to wait for a future release. The import feature is also on the drawing board. Also, I'd like to have a sort of "profile this machine" button that would fill in as many of the fields as possible with information taken from the system that ksconfig is running on. This will take some time, but I think it would be useful.
This report needs to be broken into 3 separate reports. This report is now about creating vfat partitions. Refer to bug #49441 for importing kickstart files and bug #49443 for enhanced package selection.
I have added vfat back as a filesystem type when creating partitions. It should be in rawhide soon.
Beeing able to choose is vfat is good. It would also be great if ksconfig supported the "--type=<X>" where <X> is a numerical value reflecting the partition type. This option in kickstart is described here (but I am sure you know this allready): http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manual/customization-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html