Bug 64739 - Kickstart installation problem
Summary: Kickstart installation problem
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-05-10 11:31 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-05-10 17:00:53 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Enclosed is the ks.cfg which cases the problem. (3.63 KB, text/plain)
2002-05-10 17:00 UTC, Need Real Name
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Description Need Real Name 2002-05-10 11:31:56 UTC
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Description of problem:
Once I add the "interactive" or "autostep" line to the kickstart file
the installation stops with the following error:

Could not allocate requested partitions.
Partitioning failed: Could not allocate
partitions as primary partitions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Place "interactive" in the kickstart file
2.install with: linux ks=floppy
3.
	

Actual Results:  Installation terminated with the error mentioned in
"Description" field

Expected Results:  Clean install

Additional info:

I have tried all sorts of combination of placing "interactive" and/or 
"autostep" in different locations but no success.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-05-10 15:44:12 UTC
Could you please attach your ks.cfg file?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-05-10 17:00:49 UTC
Created attachment 56984 [details]
Enclosed is the ks.cfg which cases the problem.

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-05-13 19:24:55 UTC
You need to go into this part of the ks.cfg:

# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
#clearpart --linux
#part /boot --fstype ext2 --onpart hdb1
#part swap --onpart hdb6
#part / --fstype ext2 --onpart hdb5
#part swap --onpart hda6

and figure out if you can use these partitioning rules and uncomment them.  Be
careful as you can easily destroy data if you delete the wrong partitions.


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