Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64739
Kickstart installation problem
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 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.
Could you please attach your ks.cfg file?
Created attachment 56984 [details] Enclosed is the ks.cfg which cases the problem.
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.